--- title: A stranger in a car at a school gate in Arizona told a girl her mum… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics description: A stranger in a car at a school gate in Arizona told a girl her mum had sent him to collect her; she ran back to the teacher instead, and the police later found he had no right to be there. Who acts: stranger, mum, police, teacher. 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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 (stranger, mum, police, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:17 # text = A stranger in a car at a school gate in Arizona told a girl her mum had sent him to collect her; she ran back to the teacher instead, and the police later found he had no right to be there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Arizona Arizona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 iobj _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 instead instead ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 36 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 40 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 acl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a stranger in a car at a school gate in Arizona | | a girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **send** | past · perfect | stranger's mum | Arizona | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive | stranger's mum *not said here* | mum | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **run back** | past | mum | | | | | to the teacher *result*; instead *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to teacher=Result | | 5 | **find** | past | the police | | | | | late *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | teacher | no right | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | teacher *not said here* | no right *not said here* | | | | there *property* | tree rules | 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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:17`. **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 ×3, 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: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/16/) - next →: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/)