Lost outdoors, sentence 4
A girl lost in a Washington forest as it gets dark keeps warm by sitting on her backpack or on branches instead of the cold ground, zipping up her jacket and staying put until the searchers' lights reach her.
Who acts: name, girl, lights, searchers · What happens: lose, get, keep, sit, zip up, stay · To what, where: girl, Washington forest, backpack, jacket
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lost outdoors» 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 (name, girl, lights, searchers), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 girl | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 6 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 forest | compound |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 gets | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gets | nsubj |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | advcl |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gets | xcomp |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keeps | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 sitting | mark |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 keeps | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 backpack | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 backpack | nmod:poss |
| 18 | backpack | backpack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 branches | cc |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 branches | case |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 backpack | conj |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 26 ground | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 instead | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ground | amod |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 zipping | punct |
| 28 | zipping | zip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sitting | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 zipping | compound:prt |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 31 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 zipping | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 staying | cc |
| 33 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 zipping | conj |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 staying | xcomp |
| 35 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 40 reach | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 searchers | det |
| 37 | searchers | searcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lights | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 37 searchers | case |
| 39 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 reach | nsubj |
| 40 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 staying | advcl |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 reach | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | a girl not said here | a Washington forest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in forest=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | present | name | dark property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | a girl | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | a girl not said here | girl's backpack or branches | instead the cold ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on backpack=Location | |||
| 5 | zip up | gerund | a girl not said here | girl's jacket | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacket=Patient | ||||
| 6 | stay | gerund | a girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | put | participle | a girl not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | reach | present | the searchers's lights | girl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 9 | light | the searchers | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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:049-lost-outdoors.lesson:4.
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 ×2. 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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