Hair, nails and ears, sentence 4

A boy in Vancouver gets water in his ear after swimming; he tilts his head to that side, hops a little, lets it drain and dries the outside with his towel.

Who acts: boy, head · What happens: get, swim, tilt, hop, let, drain · To what, where: water, ear, head, little, outside

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, head), 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 Vancouver	case
4	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ear	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ear	nmod:poss
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obl
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 swimming	mark
11	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gets	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tilts	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tilts	nsubj
14	tilts	tilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tilts	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tilts	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hops	punct
21	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tilts	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hops	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lets	punct
25	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drain	nsubj
27	drain	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 lets	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dries	cc
29	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lets	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 outside	det
31	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dries	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 towel	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 towel	nmod:poss
34	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dries	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	a boy in Vancouver	water	boy's ear		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
2	swim	gerund	a boy in Vancouver not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tilt	present	boy	boy's head		to that side	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
4	hop	present	boy not said here	a little			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let	present					tree rules
6	drain	infinitive	head				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
7	dry	present		the outside		with boy's towel	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent outside=Patient with towel=Instrument

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: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): 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.

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