Thinking about noticing, sentence 5

A boy in Leeds was wearing headphones and looking at the ground while crossing a car park; he did not notice a reversing car until it was nearly on him.

Who acts: boy · What happens: wear, look, cross, not notice, reverse · To what, where: headphones, car park, reversing car

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» 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), 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 wearing	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wearing	aux
6	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wearing	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looking	cc
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wearing	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 crossing	mark
14	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 looking	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 park	det
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 park	compound
17	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crossing	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 notice	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 notice	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 notice	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 notice	advmod
22	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wearing	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 car	det
24	reversing	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 car	amod
25	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 notice	obj
26	until	until	ADP	_	30 on	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 on	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 on	cop
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 on	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	22 notice	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 on	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wearing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past · progressive	a boy in Leeds	headphones		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme
2	look	gerund	a boy in Leeds not said here		at the ground	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme
3	cross	gerund	a boy in Leeds not said here	a car park		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Patient
4	not notice	past · do-support	boy	a reversing car		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
5	reverse	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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, 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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.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. 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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