Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 1
Ben reached over a fence to stroke the neighbour's dog and it bit his hand; he needed three stitches, and in bed he kept seeing its teeth: "It just went for me.
Who acts: Ben, dog · What happens: reach, stroke, bite, need, keep, see · To what, where: fence, dog, hand, three stitches, bed, teeth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection 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 (Ben, dog), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 fence | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fence | det |
| 5 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stroke | mark |
| 7 | stroke | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 reached | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 neighbour | det |
| 9 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 neighbour | case |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stroke | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bit | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bit | nsubj |
| 14 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bit | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 needed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 needed | nsubj |
| 19 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 stitches | nummod |
| 21 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 needed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kept | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 kept | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kept | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 kept | nsubj |
| 27 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 28 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 kept | xcomp |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 seeing | obj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 33 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 went | nsubj |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 went | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Ben | a fence | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over fence=Path | ||||
| 2 | stroke | to-infinitive | Ben not said here | the neighbour's dog | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | bite | past | dog | Ben's hand | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | need | past | Ben | three stitches | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | Ben | bed | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | gerund | Ben not said here | dog's teeth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | past | dog | for me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |
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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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