Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 3
A small fast ball like a squash ball can hit the eye itself, everyday glasses can snap and cut, snow throws sunlight back up into your eyes, and any change in sight after a hit means stop, tell an adult and go to A&E the same day.
Who acts: small fast ball, everyday glasses, snow, change · What happens: hit, snap, cut, throw, means, stop · To what, where: eye, sunlight, adult, A · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the medicine 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 (small fast ball, everyday glasses, snow, change), 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 | 4 ball | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ball | amod |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ball | amod |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hit | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 ball | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 7 | squash | squash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ball | compound |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ball | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hit | aux |
| 10 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eye | det |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hit | obj |
| 13 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hit | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hit | punct |
| 15 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 glasses | amod |
| 16 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 snap | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 snap | aux |
| 18 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hit | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cut | cc |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 snap | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 throws | punct |
| 22 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throws | nsubj |
| 23 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 snap | advcl |
| 24 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throws | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 up | advmod |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 throws | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 up | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 means | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 tell | cc |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 change | det |
| 33 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | nsubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 sight | case |
| 35 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 change | nmod |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 hit | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hit | det |
| 38 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 change | nmod |
| 39 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 throws | conj |
| 40 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 means | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 tell | punct |
| 42 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 throws | conj |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 adult | det |
| 44 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tell | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 go | cc |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 tell | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 A | case |
| 48 | A | A | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 go | obl |
| 49 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 50 E | cc |
| 50 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 A | conj |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 day | det |
| 52 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 day | amod |
| 53 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 go | obl:unmarked |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | can | a small fast ball like a squash ball | the eye | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient itself=Result | ||||
| 2 | snap | can | everyday glasses | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | everyday glasses not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | throw | present | snow | sunlight | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | means | present | any change in sight after a hit | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stop | infinitive | any change in sight after a hit not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | snow not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | go | infinitive | snow not said here | A & E | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to a=Initial_Location |
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:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:3.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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