--- title: A girl in Sydney crossed against a red man because the road looked e… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Sydney crossed against a red man because the road looked empty; a car came fast round the bend on its green and struck her, and she was in hospital for weeks. Who acts: girl, road. 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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, road), 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:18 # text = A girl in Sydney crossed against a red man because the road looked empty; a car came fast round the bend on its green and struck her, and she was in hospital for weeks. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 6 against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 round round ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bend bend NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:nmod 37 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | past | a girl in Sydney *not said here* | | | | | against a red man | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | the road | | | | | empty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **come** | past | a girl in Sydney | | | the bend on road's green | | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round bend=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **strike** | past | a girl in Sydney *not said here* | girl | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument | | 5 | **is** | past | girl | | | hospital | week | | 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:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.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: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/17/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/)