Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 33
Pulling a chair away as someone sits can cause a fall and a head injury.
Who acts: someone, Pulling · What happens: pull away, sit, cause · To what, where: chair, fall
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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 (someone, Pulling), 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 | Pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 cause | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chair | det |
| 3 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pulling | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Pulling | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 sits | mark |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 sits | nsubj |
| 7 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pulling | advcl |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cause | aux |
| 9 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fall | det |
| 11 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cause | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 injury | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 injury | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 injury | compound |
| 15 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fall | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull away | gerund | a chair | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | someone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cause | can | Pulling | a fall and a head injury | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fall=Patient |
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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:33.
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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