Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 5

A boy in Toronto crossed when the walk signal had just turned red because the cars had not moved yet; a car turning the corner did not see him and hit him.

Who acts: boy, walk signal, cars, car · What happens: cross, turn, not move, not see, hit · To what, where: corner, signal

This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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, walk signal, cars, 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 crossed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Toronto	case
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 signal	det
8	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 signal	compound
9	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 crossed	advcl
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 turned	xcomp
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 moved	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cars	det
16	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 moved	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moved	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 moved	advmod
19	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 turned	advcl
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 moved	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 car	det
23	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	nsubj
24	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 car	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 corner	det
26	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turning	obj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 see	advmod
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crossed	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hit	cc
32	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 see	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	a boy in Toronto				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past · perfect	the walk signal			red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	not move	past · perfect	the cars		yet		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	gerund	a car not said here	the corner			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme
5	not see	past · do-support	a car	signal			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	hit	past	a car not said here	signal			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.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): 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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