--- title: A girl in Scotland left late and dashed across the road to reach her… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Scotland left late and dashed across the road to reach her bus; a car braked hard and missed her by a metre, and the driver was shaking. Who acts: girl, car, driver. 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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 (girl, car, driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:20 # text = A girl in Scotland left late and dashed across the road to reach her bus; a car braked hard and missed her by a metre, and the driver was shaking. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 dashed dash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 across across ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 braked brake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 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 | **leave** | past | a girl in Scotland | | | | | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dash** | past | a girl in Scotland *not said here* | | | the road | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | a girl in Scotland *not said here* | girl's bus | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bus=Theme | | 4 | **brake** | past | a car | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **miss** | past | a car *not said here* | girl | | | | by a metre | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 6 | **shake** | past · progressive | the driver | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:20`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Getting ready for school and the schoo…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/19/) - next →: [Getting ready for school and the schoo…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/)