Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 1
He lay stiff as a plank for an hour, then sprinted to his parents' room so fast he hit the door frame.
Who acts: Leo · What happens: lie, sprint, hit · To what, where: room, door frame
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 plank | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plank | det |
| 6 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stiff | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprinted | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 sprinted | advmod |
| 12 | sprinted | sprint | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 room | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 parents | case |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprinted | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 hit | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hit | nsubj |
| 21 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sprinted | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 frame | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 frame | compound |
| 24 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hit | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Leo | hour | stiff property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sprint | past | Leo not said here | Leo's parents's room | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 3 | hit | past | Leo | the door frame | fast property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frame=Co-Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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