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title: A boy in Melbourne rode his bike without his helmet just to the shop… — Bikes, scooters and car parks · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Melbourne rode his bike without his helmet just to the shop; he hit a kerb, fell head first and needed weeks in hospital to recover from a head injury. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Bikes, scooters and car parks, sentence 16

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A boy in Melbourne rode his bike without his helmet just to the shop; he hit a kerb, fell head first and needed weeks in hospital to recover from a head injury.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** ride, hit, fall, need, recover · **To what, where:** bike, shop, kerb, head, head injury

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» 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 (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.lesson:16
# text = A boy in Melbourne rode his bike without his helmet just to the shop; he hit a kerb, fell head first and needed weeks in hospital to recover from a head injury.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kerb	kerb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl:unmarked
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | a boy in Melbourne | boy's bike |  | the shop |  | without boy's helmet | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bike=Theme to shop=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hit** | past | boy | a kerb |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kerb=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | boy *not said here* | head |  |  |  | first *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient head=Result |
| 4 | **need** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **recover** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  | a head injury |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from injury=Source |

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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:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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