Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 18

A girl in Sydney crossed against a red man because the road looked empty; a car came fast round the bend on its green and struck her, and she was in hospital for weeks.

Who acts: girl, road · What happens: cross, look, come, strike, be · To what, where: bend, girl, hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» 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, road), 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	18 came	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 girl	acl
6	against	against	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 looked	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossed	advcl
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looked	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 car	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 car	det
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 came	advmod
20	round	round	ADP	_	22 bend	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bend	det
22	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 green	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 green	nmod:poss
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bend	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 struck	cc
27	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 struck	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hospital	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hospital	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hospital	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hospital	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 hospital	case
34	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 struck	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 weeks	case
36	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hospital	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	a girl in Sydney not said here				against a red man	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	the road				empty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	come	past	a girl in Sydney		the bend on road's green		fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round bend=Initial_Location
4	strike	past	a girl in Sydney not said here	girl				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument
5	is	past	girl		hospital	week		tree rules

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:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.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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