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title: A boy in Sydney ran through a busy restaurant and crashed into a wai… — Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaura… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Sydney ran through a busy restaurant and crashed into a waiter carrying hot soup; the soup spilled on his arm and burned him. Who acts: boy, waiter, soup. A sentence of the lesson «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» of the everyday cours
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# Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds, sentence 15

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A boy in Sydney ran through a busy restaurant and crashed into a waiter carrying hot soup; the soup spilled on his arm and burned him.

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**Who acts:** boy, waiter, soup · **What happens:** run, crash, carry, spill, burn · **To what, where:** busy restaurant, hot soup, arm, boy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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, waiter, soup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:15
# text = A boy in Sydney ran through a busy restaurant and crashed into a waiter carrying hot soup; the soup spilled on his arm and burned him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.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	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waiter	waiter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	spilled	spill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	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	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	burned	burn	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	.	.	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 | **run** | past | a boy in Sydney |  |  | a busy restaurant |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through restaurant=Trajectory |
| 2 | **crash** | past | a boy in Sydney *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a waiter *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into waiter=Result |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | a waiter *not said here* | hot soup |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Theme |
| 4 | **spill** | past | the soup |  |  | boy's arm |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location |
| 5 | **burn** | past | the soup *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:15`.

**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/).

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