Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 19

A boy in Florida let go of his little brother's hand at a car park; the toddler ran between parked cars and a reversing car only just stopped in time.

Who acts: boy, toddler · What happens: let, go, run, park, reverse, stop · To what, where: car park, parked cars

This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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, toddler), 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 let	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 hand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 brother	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 park	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 park	det
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 park	compound
16	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 toddler	det
19	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
21	between	between	ADP	_	23 cars	case
22	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 cars	amod
23	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ran	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 car	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 car	det
26	reversing	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 car	amod
27	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cars	conj
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 stopped	advmod
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 stopped	advmod
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ran	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 time	case
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stopped	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	a boy in Florida				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	a boy in Florida not said here	a car park		of boy's little brother's hand	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of hand=Initial_Location
3	run	past	the toddler	parked cars and a reversing car			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory
4	park	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	reverse	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	stop	past	the toddler not said here		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:19.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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