Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 5
A boy in Texas hurt his knee badly on a trampoline but did not tell anyone because he thought he would get in trouble; it got much worse before he saw a doctor.
Who acts: boy, knee · What happens: hurt, not tell, think, get, see · To what, where: knee, trampoline, anyone, trouble, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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, knee), 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 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knee | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obj |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 trampoline | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trampoline | det |
| 11 | trampoline | trampoline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 tell | advmod |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurt | conj |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 tell | obj |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | advcl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 trouble | case |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | parataxis |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 worse | advmod |
| 29 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 got | xcomp |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 saw | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 doctor | det |
| 34 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | a boy in Texas | boy's knee | a trampoline | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knee=Patient | ||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | a boy in Texas not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | would | boy | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | get | past | knee | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | see | past | boy | a doctor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |
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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.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): 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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