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title: A girl in London falls asleep on the bus and wakes up one stop too l… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in London falls asleep on the bus and wakes up one stop too late; she gets off at the next stop, phones her mum and walks back — nothing to be ashamed of. Who acts: girl. A sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 4

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A girl in London falls asleep on the bus and wakes up one stop too late; she gets off at the next stop, phones her mum and walks back — nothing to be ashamed of.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** fall, wake up, get off, phone, walk back, be · **To what, where:** bus, one stop, nothing, next stop, mum

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:4
# text = A girl in London falls asleep on the bus and wakes up one stop too late; she gets off at the next stop, phones her mum and walks back — nothing to be ashamed of.
# 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 ×2, 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	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	phones	phone	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	acl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | a girl in London |  |  | the bus |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bus=Location |
| 2 | **wake up** | present | a girl in London *not said here* | one stop |  |  |  | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **get off** | present | girl | nothing |  | the next stop |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **phone** | present | girl *not said here* |  | girl's mum |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 5 | **walk back** | present | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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: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 ×2, 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/).

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