Hair, nails and ears, sentence 20

A boy in Bristol bit his nails until a fingertip became red, swollen and full of pus, and a doctor had to treat the infection.

Who acts: boy, fingertip, doctor · What happens: bite, become, have, treat · To what, where: nails, infection

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» 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, fingertip, doctor), 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 bit	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Bristol	case
4	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	bit	bite	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 nails	nmod:poss
7	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bit	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 became	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fingertip	det
10	fingertip	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	advcl
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swollen	punct
14	swollen	swell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 full	cc
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 pus	case
18	pus	pus	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 doctor	det
22	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 treat	mark
25	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 infection	det
27	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 treat	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bite	past	a boy in Bristol	boy's nails		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient
2	become	past	a fingertip		red property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	a doctor			tree rules
4	treat	to-infinitive	a doctor not said here	the infection		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent infection=Recipient

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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:20.

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): 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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