--- title: A toddler in Kentucky pulled on a kettle cord that hung over the cou… — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors · tree and pragmatics description: A toddler in Kentucky pulled on a kettle cord that hung over the counter; boiling water spilled on him and he had serious burns that needed weeks in hospital. Who acts: toddler, kettle cord, boiling water, serious burns. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toddler, kettle cord, boiling water, serious burns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:17 # text = A toddler in Kentucky pulled on a kettle cord that hung over the counter; boiling water spilled on him and he had serious burns that needed weeks in hospital. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Kentucky Kentucky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 counter counter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 boiling boil VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 spilled spill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 burns burn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull on** | past | a toddler in Kentucky | a kettle cord | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | | 2 | **hang** | past | a kettle cord | | | the counter | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over counter=Location | | 3 | **boil** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **spill** | past | boiling water | | | | | on toddler | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | | 5 | **have** | past | toddler | serious burns | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Patient | | 6 | **need** | past | serious burns | | | | week | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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