Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 20
A girl in Scotland left late and dashed across the road to reach her bus; a car braked hard and missed her by a metre, and the driver was shaking.
Who acts: girl, car, driver · What happens: leave, dash, reach, brake, miss, shake · To what, where: road, bus, girl
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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 (girl, car, driver), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Scotland | case |
| 4 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 left | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dashed | cc |
| 8 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dashed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dashed | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bus | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 car | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 car | det |
| 18 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 braked | nsubj |
| 19 | braked | brake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 braked | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 missed | cc |
| 22 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 braked | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 missed | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 metre | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 metre | det |
| 26 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 missed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shaking | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shaking | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 driver | det |
| 30 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shaking | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 shaking | aux |
| 32 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 braked | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | a girl in Scotland | late property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | a girl in Scotland not said here | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | a girl in Scotland not said here | girl's bus | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bus=Theme | ||||
| 4 | brake | past | a car | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | miss | past | a car not said here | girl | by a metre | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | shake | past · progressive | the driver | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:20.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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