When the story falls apart, sentence 17
Arlo told the class he broke his arm skateboarding; he'd slipped in the bath.
Who acts: Arlo · What happens: tell, break, slip, skateboard · To what, where: class, arm skateboarding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (Arlo), 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 | Arlo | Arlo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 class | det |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skateboarding | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skateboarding | compound |
| 9 | skateboarding | skateboarding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slipped | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slipped | aux |
| 13 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 broke | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bath | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bath | det |
| 16 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Arlo | the class | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | break | past | Arlo | Arlo's arm skateboarding | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skateboarding=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slip | past · perfect | Arlo | in the bath | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bath=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | skateboard | Arlo | nom skateboarding «act intransitive»: poss=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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:17.
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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