Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 6

A girl in Auckland crossed at a zebra crossing without looking because she thought cars must stop; a driver did not see her and braked only just in time.

Who acts: girl, cars, driver · What happens: cross, look, think, stop, not see, brake · To what, where: zebra crossing, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, cars, driver), 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 crossed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Auckland	case
4	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 crossing	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crossing	det
8	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crossing	compound
9	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obl
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 crossed	advcl
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossed	advcl
15	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stop	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stop	aux
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 driver	det
20	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stop	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 braked	cc
26	braked	brake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 time	advmod
28	just	just	ADV	_	30 time	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 time	case
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 braked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cross	past	a girl in Auckland		a zebra crossing		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	a girl in Auckland not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	girl				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stop	must	cars				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	not see	past · do-support	a driver	girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	brake	past	a driver not said here			time	tree rules

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:6.

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. 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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