--- title: A boy in Michigan kept leaning back on two legs of his chair; it sli… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Michigan kept leaning back on two legs of his chair; it slid out and he cracked the back of his head on the floor and had to go home with a concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head). Who acts: boy, worksheet. A sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» of the everyday --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Classroom rules and homework](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/) / 20 # Classroom rules and homework, sentence 20 A boy in Michigan kept leaning back on two legs of his chair; it slid out and he cracked the back of his head on the floor and had to go home with a concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head). **Who acts:** boy, worksheet · **What happens:** keep, lean back, slide out, crack, have, go · **To what, where:** two legs, back, floor This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» of the everyday 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 (boy, worksheet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:20 # text = A boy in Michigan kept leaning back on two legs of his chair; it slid out and he cracked the back of his head on the floor and had to go home with a concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 254-classroom-rules-and-homework.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 Michigan Michigan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 slid slide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 home home ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 concussion concussion NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 injury injury NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | a boy in Michigan | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lean back** | gerund | a boy in Michigan *not said here* | | | two legs of boy's chair | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 3 | **slide out** | past | worksheet | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **crack** | past | boy | the back of boy's head | | the floor | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location back=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | with a concussion; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with concussion=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](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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:20`. **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: [Classroom rules and homework, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/19/) - next →: [Classroom rules and homework, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/)