Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 17
A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for fun; he slipped off and broke his arm.
Who acts: boy · What happens: bore, climb, slip off, break · To what, where: boy, home, garage roof, arm
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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 | 6 bored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | aux:pass |
| 6 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bored | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 climbed | cc |
| 10 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | conj |
| 11 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 14 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roof | det |
| 13 | garage | garage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roof | compound |
| 14 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 fun | case |
| 16 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 slipped | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slipped | nsubj |
| 19 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 slipped | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 broke | cc |
| 22 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 slipped | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 broke | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | past · passive | a boy in Ohio | home | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | climb | past | the garage roof | for fun | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto roof=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | slip off | past | boy | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | break | past | boy not said here | boy's arm | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient |
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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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