Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 15
A girl in Texas bent down to pick up a pencil by the front wheel of her school bus; the driver could not see her, the bus moved off and she was badly hurt.
Who acts: girl, driver, bus · What happens: bend down, pick up, not see, move off, hurt · To what, where: pencil, girl
This is a sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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, driver, bus), 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 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 bent | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pick | mark |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 bent | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pick | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pencil | det |
| 11 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pick | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 wheel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 14 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wheel | amod |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pick | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bus | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bus | nmod:poss |
| 18 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bus | compound |
| 19 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wheel | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 driver | det |
| 22 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bent | parataxis |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 moved | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bus | det |
| 29 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 moved | nsubj |
| 30 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | parataxis |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 moved | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hurt | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hurt | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hurt | aux:pass |
| 35 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 hurt | advmod |
| 36 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 moved | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | past | a girl in Texas | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pick up | to-infinitive | a girl in Texas not said here | a pencil | by the front wheel of girl's school bus | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Topic | |||
| 3 | not see | could | the driver | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | move off | past | the bus | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hurt | past · passive | girl | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:15.
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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