--- title: A girl in Colorado opens her car door with her far hand; her body tu… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Colorado opens her car door with her far hand; her body turns, she looks back and sees a cyclist coming, so she waits — this is called the Dutch reach. Who acts: girl, body, cyclist. 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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, body, cyclist), 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:4 # text = A girl in Colorado opens her car door with her far hand; her body turns, she looks back and sees a cyclist coming, so she waits — this is called the Dutch reach. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Colorado Colorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod:poss 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound 16 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cyclist cyclist NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 — - PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 reach reach NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obj 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | present | a girl in Colorado | girl's car door | | | | with girl's far hand | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with hand=Instrument | | 2 | **turn** | present | girl's body | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look back** | present | body | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | present | body *not said here* | a cyclist | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | gerund | a cyclist *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wait** | present | body | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:4`. **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 ×4. **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: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/2/) - next →: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/)