Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 6
Hitting rock, or even hitting water from high up, can break the back or neck; tombstoning has killed and paralysed people in the UK.
Who acts: Hitting, tombstoning · What happens: hit, break, kill, paralyse · To what, where: rock, water, high up, back, people, UK
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» 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 (Hitting, tombstoning), 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 | Hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 break | csubj |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hitting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hitting | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 hitting | cc |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 hitting | advmod |
| 6 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Hitting | conj |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hitting | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 up | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 up | amod |
| 10 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hitting | punct |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 break | aux |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 neck | cc |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 19 | tombstoning | tombstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 killed | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 break | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 paralysed | cc |
| 23 | paralysed | paralyse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 killed | conj |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 killed | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 UK | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 UK | det |
| 27 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 people | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | gerund | rock | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | hit | gerund | water | high up | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from up=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | break | can | Hitting | the back or neck | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill | present · perfect | tombstoning | people | the UK | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 5 | paralyse | participle | tombstoning not said here | tree rules |
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:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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