--- title: A boy in Leeds was wearing headphones and looking at the ground whil… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds was wearing headphones and looking at the ground while crossing a car park; he did not notice a reversing car until it was nearly on him. Who acts: boy. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Leeds was wearing headphones and looking at the ground while crossing a car park; he did not notice a reversing car until it was nearly on him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 020-noticing-like-a-cat.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 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 _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 headphones headphone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 reversing reverse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 until until ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 22 advcl _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | past · progressive | a boy in Leeds | headphones | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | | | | | at the ground | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme | | 3 | **cross** | gerund | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | a car park | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Patient | | 4 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | boy | a reversing car | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | | 5 | **reverse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.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. **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: [Thinking about noticing, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/4/) - next →: [Thinking about noticing, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/)