Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 2

Ollie liked to play lying on his tummy on the floor; it was comfy for twenty minutes and his back ached the whole next day.

Who acts: Ollie, head, back · What happens: like, play, lie, be, ache · To what, where: tummy

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 (Ollie, head, back), 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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 liked	xcomp
5	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 play	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tummy	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tummy	nmod:poss
8	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 comfy	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comfy	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 comfy	cop
15	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 liked	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 minutes	case
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 minutes	nummod
18	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 comfy	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ached	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ached	nsubj
22	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 comfy	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 day	amod
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 day	amod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ached	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 liked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	Ollie				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ollie not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lie	gerund	Ollie not said here	Ollie's tummy		on the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tummy=Location
4	is	past	head		minute	comfy property	tree rules
5	ache	past	Ollie's back		day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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