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title: On a flight to Florida the plane hit sudden bumpy air; a boy who had… — Airports and planes · tree and pragmatics
description: On a flight to Florida the plane hit sudden bumpy air; a boy who had unbuckled was thrown up against the ceiling and cut his head, while his sister, belted in, was only shaken. Who acts: plane, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Airports and planes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Airports and planes, sentence 15

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On a flight to Florida the plane hit sudden bumpy air; a boy who had unbuckled was thrown up against the ceiling and cut his head, while his sister, belted in, was only shaken.

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**Who acts:** plane, boy · **What happens:** hit, unbuckle, throw up, cut, belt, shake · **To what, where:** sudden bumpy air, boy, head, sister

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports and planes» 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 (plane, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:271-airports-and-planes.lesson:15
# text = On a flight to Florida the plane hit sudden bumpy air; a boy who had unbuckled was thrown up against the ceiling and cut his head, while his sister, belted in, was only shaken.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 271-airports-and-planes.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	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	unbuckled	unbuckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	belted	belt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | the plane | sudden bumpy air |  |  |  | on a flight to Florida | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent air=Instrument on flight=Patient |
| 2 | **unbuckle** | past · perfect | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **throw up** | past · passive |  | a boy |  |  |  | against the ceiling | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **cut** | past |  | boy's head |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product |
| 5 | **belt** | participle |  | boy's sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **shake** | past · passive |  | boy's sister |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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:271-airports-and-planes.lesson:15`.

**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 ×2. **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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