Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 6

A girl in Scotland walked along a country road at night in dark clothes; a driver saw her only at the last moment and nearly hit her.

Who acts: girl, driver · What happens: walk, see, hit · To what, where: dark clothes, girl

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 (girl, 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 walked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Scotland	case
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 road	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 road	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 road	compound
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 clothes	case
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clothes	amod
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 walked	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 driver	det
17	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obj
20	only	only	ADV	_	24 moment	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 moment	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moment	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moment	amod
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hit	cc
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	27 hit	advmod
27	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hit	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	a girl in Scotland		dark clothes	night	along a country road	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
2	see	past	a driver	girl		moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	hit	past	a driver not said here	girl			nearly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=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: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): 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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