Sounds that warn, sentence 5

A boy in Perth wore noise-cancelling headphones while walking behind a reversing truck; he did not hear its beeping and the driver stopped just in time.

Who acts: boy, driver, truck · What happens: wear, walk, reverse, not hear, stop, beep · To what, where: cancelling headphones, reversing truck, beeping

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» 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, driver, truck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Perth	case
4	Perth	Perth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cancelling	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 noise	punct
8	cancelling	cancelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 headphones	compound
9	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wore	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 walking	mark
11	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wore	advcl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 truck	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 truck	det
14	reversing	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 truck	amod
15	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walking	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hear	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 hear	advmod
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wore	parataxis
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 beeping	nmod:poss
22	beeping	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stopped	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 driver	det
25	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stopped	nsubj
26	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	conj
27	just	just	ADV	_	29 time	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 time	case
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stopped	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wore	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wear	past	a boy in Perth	cancelling headphones			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme
2	walk	gerund	a boy in Perth not said here		a reversing truck		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind truck=Trajectory
3	reverse	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not hear	past · do-support	boy	truck's beeping			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beep=Stimulus
5	stop	past	the driver			time	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	beep		truck				nom beep «event transitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:5.

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): 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.

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