Handling anger, sentence 15

A boy in Ohio threw his tablet across the room when he lost a game; the screen smashed, and he had to save his pocket money for months for a new one.

Who acts: boy, screen · What happens: throw, lose, smashed, have, save · To what, where: tablet, room, game, pocket money

This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger» 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, screen), 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 threw	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tablet	nmod:poss
7	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 lost	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lost	nsubj
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 game	det
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 smashed	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 screen	det
18	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smashed	nsubj
19	smashed	smashed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 save	mark
25	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 money	nmod:poss
27	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 money	compound
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 save	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 months	case
30	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 save	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 one	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 one	det
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 one	amod
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 save	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	a boy in Ohio	boy's tablet	the room			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme
2	lose	past	boy	a game				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
3	smashed	past	the screen					tree rules
4	have	past	screen					tree rules
5	save	to-infinitive	screen not said here	screen's pocket money		month	for a new one	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for one=Source

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:089-handling-anger.lesson:15.

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 ×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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