Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 5

A boy in Texas ran around the front of his school bus to cross the road; a car passing the bus did not stop, and it hit him.

Who acts: boy, car · What happens: run, cross, pass, not stop, hit · To what, where: front, road, bus, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» 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, 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 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 front	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 front	det
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bus	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bus	nmod:poss
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bus	compound
12	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 front	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cross	mark
14	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 stop	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 car	det
19	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stop	nsubj
20	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 car	acl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bus	det
22	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passing	obj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stop	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 stop	advmod
25	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hit	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hit	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hit	nsubj
29	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hit	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	past	a boy in Texas		the front of boy's school bus	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around front=Trajectory
2	cross	to-infinitive	a boy in Texas not said here	the road		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
3	pass	gerund	a car not said here	the bus		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bus=Trajectory
4	not stop	past · do-support	a car			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	hit	past	car	boy		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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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