--- title: A boy in Leeds ran across the road from behind his bus to catch up w… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds ran across the road from behind his bus to catch up with a friend; a van passing the bus could not see him in time and hit him, and he spent weeks in hospital with a broken leg. Who acts: boy, van. 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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, van), 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:16 # text = A boy in Leeds ran across the road from behind his bus to catch up with a friend; a van passing the bus could not see him in time and hit him, and he spent weeks in hospital with a broken leg. # 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): R5-strong ×1, 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 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 behind behind ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 van van NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 45 . . 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 | **run** | past | a boy in Leeds | | | the road from boy's bus | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory | | 2 | **catch up** | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | | | | | with a friend | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pass** | gerund | a van *not said here* | the bus | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bus=Trajectory | | 4 | **not** **see** | could | a van | boy | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **hit** | past | a van *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | | 6 | **spend** | past | van | | | hospital | week | with a broken leg | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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, 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: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/15/) - next →: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/)