Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 4

A boy in Vancouver playing a game puts a timer on, and when it rings he looks out of the window at the far trees and walks around the room.

Who acts: boy, timer · What happens: play, put on, ring, look out, walk · To what, where: game, timer, window, far trees, room

This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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, timer), 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	8 puts	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Vancouver	case
4	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 boy	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obj
8	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 timer	det
10	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 puts	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	8 puts	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looks	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 rings	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rings	nsubj
16	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 looks	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looks	nsubj
18	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 puts	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 window	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looks	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 trees	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
25	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 trees	amod
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looks	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 walks	cc
28	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 looks	conj
29	around	around	ADP	_	31 room	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walks	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 puts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	play	gerund	a boy in Vancouver not said here	a game		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	put on	present	a boy in Vancouver	a timer		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent timer=Goal
3	ring	present	timer			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look out	present	boy	the window	the far trees	tree rules
5	walk	present	boy not said here		the room	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around room=Trajectory

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:008-posture-and-screens.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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