Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns, sentence 1
The brain is soft and sits inside the hard skull; after a hard knock it can be hurt even if you feel fine at first, so an adult needs to know and watch you.
Who acts: brain, you, adult · What happens: be, sit, hurt, feel, need, know · To what, where: hard skull, brain, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns» 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 (brain, you, adult), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brain | det |
| 2 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soft | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soft | cop |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sits | cc |
| 6 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soft | conj |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 skull | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skull | det |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skull | amod |
| 10 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurt | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 knock | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 knock | det |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knock | amod |
| 15 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hurt | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurt | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hurt | aux:pass |
| 19 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 soft | parataxis |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 feel | advmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 feel | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | nsubj |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurt | advcl |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feel | xcomp |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 first | case |
| 26 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 fine | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 needs | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 needs | advmod |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 adult | det |
| 30 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 needs | nsubj |
| 31 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soft | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 know | mark |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 needs | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 watch | cc |
| 35 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 know | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 watch | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the brain | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the brain not said here | the hard skull | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside skull=Location | ||||
| 3 | hurt | can · passive | brain | after a hard knock | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feel a condition, not said to happen | present | you | fine property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | need | present | a adult | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | a adult not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | watch | infinitive | a adult not said here | you | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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:084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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