--- title: A boy in Cornwall stood near a cliff edge to look at the sea; the ed… — Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Cornwall stood near a cliff edge to look at the sea; the edge crumbled and he fell, and he was rescued by helicopter with broken bones. Who acts: boy, edge, helicopter. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/17/) [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/) / [Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/) / 17 # Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety, sentence 17 A boy in Cornwall stood near a cliff edge to look at the sea; the edge crumbled and he fell, and he was rescued by helicopter with broken bones. **Who acts:** boy, edge, helicopter · **What happens:** stand, look, crumble, fall, rescue, break · **To what, where:** cliff edge, boy This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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, edge, helicopter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Cornwall stood near a cliff edge to look at the sea; the edge crumbled and he fell, and he was rescued by helicopter with broken bones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 Cornwall Cornwall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 near near ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 crumbled crumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 rescued rescue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 helicopter helicopter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 31 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 32 . . 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 | **stand** | past | a boy in Cornwall | | | a cliff edge | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near edge=Location | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | a boy in Cornwall *not said here* | | | | | at the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=Theme | | 3 | **crumble** | past | the edge | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **fall** | past | boy | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rescue** | past · passive | helicopter | boy | | | | with broken bones | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 6 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, c…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/16/) - next →: [Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, c…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/)