Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 16

A boy in Leeds ran across the road from behind his bus to catch up with a friend; a van passing the bus could not see him in time and hit him, and he spent weeks in hospital with a broken leg.

Who acts: boy, van · What happens: run, catch up, pass, not see, hit, spend · To what, where: road, bus, boy, hospital

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 (boy, van), 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 ran	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 bus	case
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 bus	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bus	nmod:poss
12	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 road	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 catch	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 friend	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 friend	det
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 van	det
21	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	nsubj
22	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 van	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bus	det
24	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passing	obj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 time	case
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hit	cc
32	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 see	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hit	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 spent	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 spent	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 spent	nsubj
37	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
38	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 spent	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 hospital	case
40	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spent	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 leg	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 leg	det
43	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 leg	amod
44	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spent	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	a boy in Leeds		the road from boy's bus			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory
2	catch up	to-infinitive	a boy in Leeds not said here				with a friend	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pass	gerund	a van not said here	the bus				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bus=Trajectory
4	not see	could	a van	boy		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	hit	past	a van not said here	boy				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
6	spend	past	van		hospital	week	with a broken leg	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.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): R5-strong ×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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