Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 16

A boy in Texas got into a car with older boys who were speeding because he did not want to say no; the car crashed, and he broke his arm.

Who acts: boy, older boys, car · What happens: get, speed, not want, say, crash, break · To what, where: car, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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, older boys, car), 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 got	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 car	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 boys	case
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 boys	amod
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 speeding	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 speeding	aux
14	speeding	speed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 boys	acl:relcl
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 want	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 want	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 want	advmod
19	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 speeding	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 want	xcomp
22	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	21 say	discourse
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 crashed	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 car	det
25	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crashed	nsubj
26	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 broke	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 broke	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 broke	nsubj
30	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arm	nmod:poss
32	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 broke	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	a boy in Texas		a car	with older boys	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination
2	speed	past · progressive	older boys				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not want	past · do-support	boy				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	crash	past	the car				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	break	past	boy	boy's arm			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:16.

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): no change. 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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