--- title: A girl in Texas bent down to pick up a pencil by the front wheel of… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas bent down to pick up a pencil by the front wheel of her school bus; the driver could not see her, the bus moved off and she was badly hurt. Who acts: girl, driver, bus. 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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, driver, bus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:15 # text = A girl in Texas bent down to pick up a pencil by the front wheel of her school bus; the driver could not see her, the bus moved off and she was badly hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 269-school-buses-and-public-buses.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 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 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 pick pick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 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 | **bend down** | past | a girl in Texas | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | a girl in Texas *not said here* | a pencil | | | | by the front wheel of girl's school bus | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Topic | | 3 | **not** **see** | could | the driver | girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **move off** | past | the bus | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hurt** | past · passive | | girl | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:15`. **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): 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: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/14/) - next →: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/)