--- title: A boy in New Jersey saw a car hit a bike and drive away, but he coul… — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in New Jersey saw a car hit a bike and drive away, but he could not remember the colour or the plate; the police had little to go on. Who acts: boy, car, police. 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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, car, police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:018-remembering-details.lesson:5 # text = A boy in New Jersey saw a car hit a bike and drive away, but he could not remember the colour or the plate; the police had little to go on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 018-remembering-details.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Jersey Jersey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 9 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 on on ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | a boy in New Jersey | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **hit** | infinitive | a car | a bike | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bike=Co-Theme | | 3 | **drive away** | infinitive | a car *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **remember** | could | boy | the colour or the plate | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent colour=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **have** | past | the police | little | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | | 6 | **go on** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «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](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:018-remembering-details.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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Remembering details, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/4/) - next →: [Remembering details, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/)