Riding a bike or a scooter safely, sentence 6
A girl in London rode past a row of parked cars; a driver opened a door right in front of her, she hit it and fell into the road, but her helmet and a careful driver behind saved her from worse.
Who acts: girl, driver, helmet · What happens: ride, park, open, hit, fall, save · To what, where: row, door, front, road, girl, worse
This is a sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» 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, helmet), 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 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 London | case |
| 4 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 row | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 row | det |
| 8 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cars | case |
| 10 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cars | amod |
| 11 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 row | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 driver | det |
| 14 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 front | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 front | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hit | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hit | nsubj |
| 25 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hit | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fell | cc |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hit | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 road | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 road | det |
| 31 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 saved | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 saved | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 35 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 saved | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 driver | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 driver | det |
| 38 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 driver | amod |
| 39 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 helmet | conj |
| 40 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 41 saved | advmod |
| 41 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saved | obj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 worse | case |
| 44 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 saved | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | a girl in London | a row of parked cars | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past row=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | park | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | open | past | a driver | a door | front of girl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 4 | hit | past | girl | door | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | girl not said here | into the road result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into road=Result | ||||
| 6 | save | past | girl's helmet and a careful driver | girl | worse | behind property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from bad=Source |
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:005-bikes-and-scooters.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): 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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