Weather emergencies, sentence 6

A boy in Oklahoma ignored a tornado warning and went outside to watch; flying branches and glass hurt him before he got back in.

Who acts: boy, flying branches · What happens: ignore, go, watch, fly, hurt, get back · To what, where: tornado warning, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» 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, flying branches), 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 ignored	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Oklahoma	case
4	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 warning	det
7	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warning	compound
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ignored	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ignored	conj
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 watch	mark
13	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 branches	punct
15	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 branches	amod
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hurt	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 glass	cc
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 branches	conj
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ignored	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hurt	obj
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 got	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hurt	advcl
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
25	in	in	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ignored	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	a boy in Oklahoma	a tornado warning		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
2	go	past	a boy in Oklahoma not said here		outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	to-infinitive	a boy in Oklahoma not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hurt	past	flying branches and glass	boy		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
6	get back	past	boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:048-weather-emergencies.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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