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title: A boy in Florida let go of his little brother's hand at a car park;… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Florida let go of his little brother's hand at a car park; the toddler ran between parked cars and a reversing car only just stopped in time. Who acts: boy, toddler. A sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» of the everyday course of M
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# Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 19

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A boy in Florida let go of his little brother's hand at a car park; the toddler ran between parked cars and a reversing car only just stopped in time.

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**Who acts:** boy, toddler · **What happens:** let, go, run, park, reverse, stop · **To what, where:** car park, parked cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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, toddler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:19
# text = A boy in Florida let go of his little brother's hand at a car park; the toddler ran between parked cars and a reversing car only just stopped in time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.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 ×3
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	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	reversing	reverse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **let** | past | a boy in Florida |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | a boy in Florida *not said here* |  |  | a car park |  | of boy's little brother's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of hand=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **run** | past | the toddler |  |  | parked cars and a reversing car |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory |
| 4 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **reverse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **stop** | past | the toddler *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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**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 ×3. **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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