--- title: A small boy in London had his foot slip into the gap between the tra… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics description: A small boy in London had his foot slip into the gap between the train and the platform; staff stopped the train and freed him, but his leg was bruised and he was very frightened. Who acts: small boy, staff. 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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 (small boy, staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:16 # text = A small boy in London had his foot slip into the gap between the train and the platform; staff stopped the train and freed him, but his leg was bruised and he was very frightened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 270-trains-and-subways.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss 8 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 13 between between ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 platform platform NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 freed free VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 bruised bruise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:aux:pass 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | a small boy in London | foot slip | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | past | staff | the train | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality train=Eventuality | | 3 | **free** | past | staff *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source | | 4 | **bruise** | past · passive | | boy's leg | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past · passive | | boy | | | | frighten *property* | tree rules | 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:270-trains-and-subways.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/15/) - next →: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/)