Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 1

His mum laughed, then showed him how to sit back with the screen held up near eye level, so his head was not hanging forward.

Who acts: mum, head · What happens: laugh, show, sit back, hold up, not hang · To what, where: Kai, eye level

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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 (mum, head), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 showed	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 showed	advmod
6	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 showed	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sit	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sit	mark
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 showed	xcomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 sit	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 screen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 screen	det
14	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sit	obl
15	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sit	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 held	compound:prt
17	near	near	ADP	_	19 level	case
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 level	compound
19	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hanging	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	26 hanging	advmod
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hanging	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hanging	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 hanging	advmod
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sit	conj
27	forward	forward	ADV	_	26 hanging	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Kai's mum					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	past	Kai's mum not said here	Kai		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sit back	to-infinitive	Kai's mum not said here				with the screen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold up	participle	Kai's mum not said here		eye level			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	not hang	past · progressive	Kai's head				forward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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): R5-strong ×1. 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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