Crossing the road, sentence 5

A boy in Ohio ran into the road after his ball without stopping; a car could not stop in time and hit him, and he spent weeks in hospital with a broken leg.

Who acts: boy, ball, car · What happens: run, stop, not stop, hit, spend, break · To what, where: road, boy, hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» 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, ball, car), 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 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	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	after	after	ADP	_	11 ball	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ball	nmod:poss
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 stopping	mark
13	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 ball	acl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stop	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 car	det
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stop	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stop	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 stop	advmod
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stop	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hit	cc
23	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stop	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hit	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spent	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spent	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spent	nsubj
28	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
29	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spent	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 hospital	case
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 leg	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 leg	det
34	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 leg	amod
35	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	obl
36	.	.	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 Ohio			after boy's ball	into the road result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into road=Result
2	stop	gerund	boy's ball not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	not stop	could	a car			time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	hit	past	a car not said here	boy				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
5	spend	past	boy		hospital	week	with a broken leg	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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