Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 5
A boy in Toronto played on his tablet in bed until midnight every night; he got headaches, fell asleep in class and his marks went down until his family put the tablet away at bedtime.
Who acts: boy, marks, family · What happens: play, get, fall, go down, put away, mark · To what, where: tablet, headaches, class, bedtime
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, marks, family), 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 played | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tablet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tablet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 12 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | parataxis |
| 18 | headaches | headache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | conj |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fell | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 class | case |
| 23 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 marks | nmod:poss |
| 26 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 put | mark |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 family | nmod:poss |
| 31 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | nsubj |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 went | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tablet | det |
| 34 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 put | advmod |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 bedtime | case |
| 37 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | a boy in Toronto | boy's tablet | midnight; night | in bed | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | get | past | boy | headaches | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | boy not said here | class | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location | |||
| 4 | go down | past | boy's marks | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | put away | past | boy's family | the tablet | bedtime | away property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme at bedtime=Destination | ||
| 6 | mark | boy | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:5.
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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