Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 4

In London the nearest cars come from the right, so a boy from New York who looks left first, out of habit, sees an empty lane and steps into the one where the danger really is.

Who acts: nearest cars, boy, danger · What happens: come, look, leave, see, step, be · To what, where: London, habit, empty lane

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (nearest cars, boy, danger), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 London	case
2	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cars	det
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 cars	amod
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 right	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 right	det
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sees	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	26 sees	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sees	nsubj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 York	case
15	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 York	flat
16	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 boy	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 looks	nsubj
18	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boy	acl:relcl
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 looks	xcomp
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 left	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 habit	punct
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 habit	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 habit	case
24	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looks	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
26	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lane	det
28	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lane	amod
29	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sees	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 steps	cc
31	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sees	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 one	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 steps	obl
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 is	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 danger	det
37	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 is	nsubj
38	really	really	ADV	_	39 is	advmod
39	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 one	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	the nearest cars		London	from the right	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial_Location
2	look	present	a boy from New York		habit		tree rules
3	leave	participle	a boy from New York not said here			first property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	present	a boy from New York	a empty lane			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lane=Stimulus
5	step	present	a boy from New York not said here			into the one	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination
6	be	present	the danger				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:4.

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, 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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