Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals, sentence 5
A boy in Arizona played football all afternoon in the heat without drinking; he got dizzy, his head pounded and he fainted, and an adult had to cool him down and call for help.
Who acts: boy, head, adult · What happens: play, drink, get, pound, faint, have · To what, where: football, heat, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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, head, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Arizona | case |
| 4 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 afternoon | det |
| 8 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heat | det |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 drinking | mark |
| 13 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 played | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | parataxis |
| 17 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 got | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pounded | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pounded | nsubj |
| 21 | pounded | pound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fainted | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fainted | nsubj |
| 24 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pounded | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 had | cc |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 adult | det |
| 28 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fainted | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 cool | mark |
| 31 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 had | xcomp |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 cool | obj |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 cool | compound:prt |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 call | cc |
| 35 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 cool | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 help | case |
| 37 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 call | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | a boy in Arizona | football | the heat | afternoon | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | ||
| 2 | drink | gerund | a boy in Arizona not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | boy | dizzy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | pound | past | boy's head | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | faint | past | boy | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | have | past | a adult | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | cool down | to-infinitive | a adult not said here | boy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 8 | call | infinitive | a adult not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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:009-body-signals.lesson:5.
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): no change. 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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