--- title: A child stepping out from behind a stopped bus is hidden from driver… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics description: A child stepping out from behind a stopped bus is hidden from drivers until the very last moment, so a driver has no time to stop. Who acts: child, driver. 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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 (child, driver), 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:18 # text = A child stepping out from behind a stopped bus is hidden from drivers until the very last moment, so a driver has no time to stop. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 until until ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step out** | gerund | a child *not said here* | | | a stopped bus | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bus=Trajectory | | 2 | **stop** | participle | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **hide** | present · passive | | a child | | | moment | from drivers | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from driver=Beneficiary | | 4 | **have** | present | a driver | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a driver *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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: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): no change. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/17/) - next →: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/)