The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 6
Ben's stone bounced off a wall and broke a school window; he walked away and told the dinner lady «No, miss».
Who acts: stone · What happens: bounce off, break, walk away, tell · To what, where: wall, school window, miss, dinner lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (stone), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stone | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ben | case |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bounced | nsubj |
| 4 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 bounced | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bounced | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 broke | cc |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bounced | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 window | compound |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broke | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walked | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 20 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lady | compound |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | iobj |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 miss | punct |
| 23 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 miss | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 No | punct |
| 25 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 miss | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bounced | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce off | past | Ben's stone | a wall | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Agent | ||||
| 2 | break | past | Ben's stone not said here | a school window | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient | ||||
| 3 | walk away | past | stone | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | stone not said here | miss | the dinner lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient miss=Topic |
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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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