--- title: A boy in Ohio used his dad's power drill without asking; it jumped o… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio used his dad's power drill without asking; it jumped off a screw and went into his hand, and he needed surgery. Who acts: boy, power drill, drill. 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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 (boy, power drill, drill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:26 # text = A boy in Ohio used his dad's power drill without asking; it jumped off a screw and went into his hand, and he needed surgery. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 drill drill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 off off ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 screw screw NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 surgery surgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **use** | past | a boy in Ohio | boy's dad's power drill | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drill=Patient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | boy's dad's power drill *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **jump off** | past | drill | a screw | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme screw=Trajectory | | 4 | **go** | past | drill *not said here* | | | boy's hand | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **need** | past | boy | surgery | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:26`. **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): no change. **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: [Building and making things safely, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/25/) - next →: [Building and making things safely, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/)