Sun, cold and growing up, sentence 17

A boy in Queensland spent a beach day without sunscreen or a shirt; his back blistered with sunburn, he had a fever and could not sleep for nights.

Who acts: boy · What happens: spend, blister, have, not sleep · To what, where: back, fever

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sun, cold and growing up» 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), 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 spent	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Queensland	case
4	Queensland	Queensland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 sunscreen	case
10	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 shirt	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shirt	det
13	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sunscreen	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 blistered	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blistered	nsubj:pass
17	blistered	blister	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 sunburn	case
19	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blistered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fever	det
24	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sleep	cc
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sleep	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 sleep	advmod
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 nights	case
30	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sleep	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	a boy in Queensland		day	without sunscreen or a shirt	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	blister	past · passive		boy's back		with sunburn	tree rules
3	have	past	boy	a fever			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient
4	not sleep	could	boy not said here		night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:17.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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