Remembering details, sentence 5

A boy in New Jersey saw a car hit a bike and drive away, but he could not remember the colour or the plate; the police had little to go on.

Who acts: boy, car, police · What happens: see, hit, drive away, not remember, have, go on · To what, where: bike, colour, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» 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, car, police), 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	6 saw	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Jersey	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Jersey	compound
5	Jersey	Jersey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saw	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bike	det
11	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drive	cc
13	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hit	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 drive	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remember	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 remember	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remember	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 remember	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 remember	advmod
20	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saw	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 colour	det
22	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remember	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 plate	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 plate	det
25	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 colour	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 police	det
28	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 remember	ccomp
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 had	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 little	acl
33	on	on	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	a boy in New Jersey			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hit	infinitive	a car	a bike		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bike=Co-Theme
3	drive away	infinitive	a car not said here		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	not remember	could	boy	the colour or the plate		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent colour=Theme clause=Attribute
5	have	past	the police	little		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
6	go on	to-infinitive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:018-remembering-details.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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