Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 18

A boy in California crossed a street while looking at his phone; he never saw the car turning towards him, and it hit him and broke his leg.

Who acts: boy, car, street · What happens: cross, look, not see, turn, hit, break · To what, where: street, car, boy, leg

This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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, street), 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 crossed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 California	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 crossed	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 phone	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 phone	nmod:poss
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 saw	advmod
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossed	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 car	det
18	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 car	acl
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 turning	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hit	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hit	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hit	nsubj
25	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hit	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 broke	cc
28	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hit	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 leg	nmod:poss
30	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broke	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	past	a boy in California	a street		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Patient
2	look	gerund	a boy in California not said here		at boy's phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme
3	not see	past	boy	the car		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
4	turn	gerund	the car not said here		towards boy	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards he=Trajectory
5	hit	past	street	boy		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
6	break	past	street not said here	boy's leg		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:18.

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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