--- title: When nobody came to pick up a girl in Texas, she walked home alone;… — Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridor… · tree and pragmatics description: When nobody came to pick up a girl in Texas, she walked home alone; her mum arrived late and panicked, and the police were called before the girl was found safe at home. Who acts: nobody, girl, mum. 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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 (nobody, girl, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.lesson:17 # text = When nobody came to pick up a girl in Texas, she walked home alone; her mum arrived late and panicked, and the police were called before the girl was found safe at home. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.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 ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 alone alone ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 panicked panic VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 34 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | a girl | | Texas | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | | 3 | **walk** | past | girl | | | | | alone, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **arrive** | past | girl's mum | | | | | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **panic** | past | girl's mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **call** | past · passive | | the police | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 7 | **find** | past · passive | | the girl | | home | | safe *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at home=Asset | 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:329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.lesson:17`. **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 ×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. 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