--- title: A boy in Texas got into a car with older boys who were speeding beca… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas got into a car with older boys who were speeding because he did not want to say no; the car crashed, and he broke his arm. Who acts: boy, older boys, car. 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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, older boys, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:16 # text = A boy in Texas got into a car with older boys who were speeding because he did not want to say no; the car crashed, and he broke his arm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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): no change 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 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 speeding speed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 21 discourse _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | a boy in Texas | | | a car | | with older boys | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination | | 2 | **speed** | past · progressive | older boys | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | boy | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **crash** | past | the car | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **break** | past | boy | boy's arm | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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: [Speaking up, saying no and growing up, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/15/) - next →: [Speaking up, saying no and growing up, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/)