Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 3
A boy in Adelaide gets a front tooth knocked out at football; his coach picks it up by the white top, puts it in a cup of milk and drives him straight to the dentist, who puts it back.
Who acts: boy, coach, dentist · What happens: get, knock out, pick up, put, drive, put back · To what, where: front tooth, football, cup, coach, dentist
This is a sentence of the lesson «Flossing and caring for your teeth» 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, coach, dentist), 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 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Adelaide | case |
| 4 | Adelaide | Adelaide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tooth | det |
| 7 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tooth | amod |
| 8 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obj |
| 9 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tooth | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 knocked | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 football | case |
| 12 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knocked | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 picks | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coach | nmod:poss |
| 15 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picks | nsubj |
| 16 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gets | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 picks | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 picks | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 top | det |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 top | amod |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picks | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 puts | punct |
| 24 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 picks | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 puts | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cup | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cup | det |
| 28 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 puts | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 milk | case |
| 30 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cup | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 drives | cc |
| 32 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gets | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 drives | obj |
| 34 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 37 dentist | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 dentist | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dentist | det |
| 37 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drives | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 puts | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 puts | nsubj |
| 40 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 dentist | acl:relcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 puts | obj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 40 puts | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a boy in Adelaide | a front tooth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | knock out | participle | a front tooth not said here | at football | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at football=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pick up | present | boy's coach | football | by the white top | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | put | present | boy's coach not said here | football | a cup of milk | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cup=Destination | |||
| 5 | drive | present | a boy in Adelaide not said here | coach | the dentist | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dentist=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | put back | present | the dentist | dentist | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:3.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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