--- title: A boy in Texas started crossing when the "Don't Walk" sign was alrea… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas started crossing when the "Don't Walk" sign was already flashing; a turning truck did not see him, and he was hit and badly hurt. Who acts: boy, Walk sign, turning truck. 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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, Walk sign, turning truck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Texas started crossing when the "Don't Walk" sign was already flashing; a turning truck did not see him, and he was hit and badly hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 267-traffic-lights-and-signs.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-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 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 Walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 compound _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 already already ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 flashing flash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 turning turning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 truck truck NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 33 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **start** | past | a boy in Texas | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **cross** | gerund | a boy in Texas *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **flash** | past · progressive | the Walk sign | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | a turning truck | boy | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **hit** | past · passive | | boy | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 7 | **hurt** | participle | | | | | | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/16/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/)