Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns, sentence 16
A boy in Manchester put butter on a burn from the kettle; it kept the heat in and the burn got worse, and at the hospital the nurse said cool running water would have helped.
Who acts: boy, burn, nurse, cool running water · What happens: put, keep, get, say, run, help · To what, where: butter, burn, heat, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, burn, nurse, cool running water), 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 put | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Manchester | case |
| 4 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 burn | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 burn | det |
| 9 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 kettle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kettle | det |
| 12 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burn | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heat | det |
| 17 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 kept | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 burn | det |
| 21 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kept | conj |
| 23 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 got | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 hospital | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hospital | det |
| 28 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nurse | det |
| 30 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | nsubj |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 got | conj |
| 32 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 water | amod |
| 33 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 water | amod |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 helped | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 helped | aux |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 helped | aux |
| 37 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 said | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | a boy in Manchester | butter | a burn from the kettle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme on burn=Destination | |||
| 2 | keep | past | burn | the heat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the burn | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the nurse | the hospital | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | help | would · perfect | cool running water | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.lesson:16.
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): 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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