--- title: A boy in Alabama took off his seat belt for a short drive to the sho… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Alabama took off his seat belt for a short drive to the shop; when the car braked hard he was thrown into the seat in front and broke his nose and two teeth. Who acts: boy, car. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:21 # text = A boy in Alabama took off his seat belt for a short drive to the shop; when the car braked hard he was thrown into the seat in front and broke his nose and two teeth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.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 ×2, 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 Alabama Alabama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 braked brake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 22 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **take off** | past | a boy in Alabama | boy's seat belt | | | | for a short drive to the shop | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Theme | | 2 | **brake** | past | the car | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **throw** | past · passive | | boy | | | | into the seat in front *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into seat=Result | | 4 | **break** | past | | boy's nose and two teeth | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=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. 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