The beach and the sea, sentence 5
A boy in Cornwall played at the edge of the water when a big wave knocked him over and pulled him out; his dad, who was watching closely, got to him in time.
Who acts: boy, dad · What happens: play, knock over, pull out, watch, get · To what, where: edge, big wave, boy
This is a sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» 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 (boy, dad), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Cornwall | case |
| 4 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 edge | nmod |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 knocked | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wave | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wave | amod |
| 15 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knocked | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 knocked | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pulled | cc |
| 20 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knocked | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pulled | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 pulled | compound:prt |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dad | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dad | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 watching | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 watching | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 watching | aux |
| 29 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 dad | acl:relcl |
| 30 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 29 watching | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | a boy in Cornwall | the edge of the water | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | knock over | past · passive | a big wave | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull out | past | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | watch | past · progressive | boy's dad | closely property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get | past | boy's dad | boy | time | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result |
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:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.lesson:5.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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