Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 3

A boy in Dallas finds colourful pills on the kitchen table; he does not touch them, he tells his dad, and his dad puts them away up high.

Who acts: boy, dad · What happens: find, not touch, tell, put away · To what, where: colourful pills, kitchen table, pills, dad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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, dad), 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 finds	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dallas	case
4	Dallas	Dallas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	colourful	colourful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pills	amod
7	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 finds	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 table	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 table	compound
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 touch	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touch	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 touch	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 touch	advmod
16	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 finds	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tells	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tells	nsubj
20	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finds	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dad	nmod:poss
22	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tells	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 puts	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 puts	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dad	nmod:poss
26	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 puts	nsubj
27	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finds	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 puts	obj
29	away	away	ADV	_	27 puts	advmod
30	up	up	ADV	_	31 high	advmod
31	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 puts	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	a boy in Dallas	colourful pills		the kitchen table		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Topic
2	not touch	present · do-support	boy	pills = pill				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	boy		boy's dad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
4	put away	present	boy's dad	pills = pill			away, high property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:3.

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 ×2, 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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