--- title: A boy in England wore his seat belt under his arm because it rubbed;… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in England wore his seat belt under his arm because it rubbed; in a small crash it pressed into his tummy and hurt him inside. Who acts: boy, belt. 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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, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:20 # text = A boy in England wore his seat belt under his arm because it rubbed; in a small crash it pressed into his tummy and hurt him inside. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 wore wear 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 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 inside inside ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | past | a boy in England | boy's seat belt | | boy's arm | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent belt=Theme | | 2 | **rub** | past | belt | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **press** | past | belt | | | a small crash | | into boy's tummy | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into tummy=Trajectory | | 4 | **hurt** | past | belt *not said here* | boy | | | | inside *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | 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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:20`. **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. 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