Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 18

A boy in Minnesota went out to play in the snow in thin gloves; after an hour his fingers were white and numb with frostnip, and he had to warm them slowly indoors.

Who acts: boy, fingers · What happens: go out, play, be, have, warm · To what, where: snow, fingers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» 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, fingers), 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 went	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Minnesota	case
4	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 snow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 gloves	case
13	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gloves	amod
14	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 white	punct
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 hour	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 white	obl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fingers	nmod:poss
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 white	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 white	cop
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 numb	cc
24	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 white	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 frostnip	case
26	frostnip	frostnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 white	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 warm	mark
32	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 warm	obj
34	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	32 warm	advmod
35	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	32 warm	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	a boy in Minnesota				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	to-infinitive	a boy in Minnesota not said here		the snow		in thin gloves	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	boy's fingers			hour	with frostnip; white property	tree rules
4	be		boy's fingers not said here					tree rules
5	have	past	boy					tree rules
6	warm	to-infinitive	boy not said here	fingers = finger			indoors, slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:18.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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