--- title: A boy in Perth wore noise-cancelling headphones while walking behind… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Perth wore noise-cancelling headphones while walking behind a reversing truck; he did not hear its beeping and the driver stopped just in time. Who acts: boy, driver, truck. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, driver, truck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Perth wore noise-cancelling headphones while walking behind a reversing truck; he did not hear its beeping and the driver stopped just in time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 012-sounds-that-warn.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Perth Perth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 cancelling cancelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 headphones headphone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 behind behind ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 reversing reverse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 truck truck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 beeping beep NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | past | a boy in Perth | cancelling headphones | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | a boy in Perth *not said here* | | | a reversing truck | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind truck=Trajectory | | 3 | **reverse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **hear** | past · do-support | boy | truck's beeping | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beep=Stimulus | | 5 | **stop** | past | the driver | | | | time | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **beep** | | truck | | | | | | nom beep «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:012-sounds-that-warn.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sounds that warn, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/4/) - next →: [Sounds that warn, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/)