--- title: A boy in California crossed a street while looking at his phone; he… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in California crossed a street while looking at his phone; he never saw the car turning towards him, and it hit him and broke his leg. Who acts: boy, car, street. 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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, street), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:18 # text = A boy in California crossed a street while looking at his phone; he never saw the car turning towards him, and it hit him and broke his leg. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 towards towards ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **cross** | past | a boy in California | a street | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Patient | | 2 | **look** | gerund | a boy in California *not said here* | | | | | at boy's phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme | | 3 | **not** **see** | past | boy | the car | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | the car *not said here* | | | | | towards boy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards he=Trajectory | | 5 | **hit** | past | street | boy | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | | 6 | **break** | past | street *not said here* | boy's leg | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:18`. **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: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/17/) - next →: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/)