A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 0
In a Leeds supermarket the strip lights buzz, a trolley crashes, and Toby, who is 7 and autistic, drops to the floor with his hands over his ears, screaming.
Who acts: strip lights, trolley, Toby · What happens: buzz, crash, be, drop, scream · To what, where: Leeds supermarket, 7, floor
This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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 (strip lights, trolley, Toby), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 supermarket | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 supermarket | det |
| 3 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 supermarket | compound |
| 4 | supermarket | supermarket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crashes | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 buzz | det |
| 6 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lights | compound |
| 7 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buzz | nsubj |
| 8 | buzz | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 crashes | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crashes | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trolley | det |
| 11 | trolley | trolley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crashes | nsubj |
| 12 | crashes | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Toby | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drops | cc |
| 15 | Toby | Toby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 drops | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 7 | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 7 | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 7 | cop |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Toby | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 autistic | cc |
| 21 | autistic | autistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 7 | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drops | punct |
| 23 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 crashes | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 floor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 floor | det |
| 26 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drops | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 hands | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drops | obl |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 ears | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 ears | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hands | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 screaming | punct |
| 34 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 drops | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 crashes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | present | strip lights | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | crash | present | a trolley | a Leeds supermarket | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in supermarket=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Toby | 7 | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Toby not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | drop | present | Toby | the floor | with Toby's hands over Toby's ears | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to floor=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | scream speech: express | gerund | Toby not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:0.
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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