--- title: A girl in the UK picked up a shiny thing on the beach that turned ou… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in the UK picked up a shiny thing on the beach that turned out to be a sharp piece of metal; she cut her hand deeply and needed stitches. Who acts: girl, shiny thing. 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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 (girl, shiny thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:21 # text = A girl in the UK picked up a shiny thing on the beach that turned out to be a sharp piece of metal; she cut her hand deeply and needed stitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 238-bites-and-things-you-find.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | a girl in the UK | a shiny thing | | the beach | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **turn out** | past | a shiny thing | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a shiny thing *not said here* | a sharp piece | | | | of metal | tree rules | | 4 | **cut** | past | girl | girl's hand | | | | deeply *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Product | | 5 | **need** | past | girl *not said here* | stitches | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:21`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bites, stings and things you find on t…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/20/) - next →: [Bites, stings and things you find on t…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/)