--- title: A boy in Wales walked to the edge of a cliff for a photo; the ground… — Hiking and the outdoors · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Wales walked to the edge of a cliff for a photo; the ground at the edge crumbled and he fell, and he was rescued by helicopter with a broken leg. Who acts: boy, ground, helicopter. 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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, ground, helicopter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.lesson:6 # text = A boy in Wales walked to the edge of a cliff for a photo; the ground at the edge crumbled and he fell, and he was rescued by helicopter with a broken leg. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.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 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 crumbled crumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 rescued rescue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 helicopter helicopter NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 35 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 36 . . 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 | **walk** | past | a boy in Wales | | | | | to the edge of a cliff *result*; for a photo | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to edge=Result | | 2 | **crumble** | past | the ground at the edge | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | past | boy | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rescue** | past · passive | helicopter | boy | | | | with a broken leg | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 5 | **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:047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.lesson:6`. **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: [Hiking and the outdoors, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/47-hiking-and-the-outdoors/5/) - next →: [Hiking and the outdoors, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/47-hiking-and-the-outdoors/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/47-hiking-and-the-outdoors/)