--- title: And one evening Lily saw older boys fighting near her house; when on… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics description: And one evening Lily saw older boys fighting near her house; when one of them lay still on the pavement and didn't get up, she rang 999 and stayed on the line from her doorway until the ambulance came. Who acts: Lily, older boys, one, ambulance. 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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 (Lily, older boys, one, ambulance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:16 # text = And one evening Lily saw older boys fighting near her house; when one of them lay still on the pavement and didn't get up, she rang 999 and stayed on the line from her doorway until the ambulance came. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 384-when-the-police-come.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 doorway doorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 until until SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 ambulance ambulance NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Lily | older boys | | | evening | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | | 2 | **fight** | gerund | older boys *not said here* | | | Lily's house | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lie** | past | one of teacher | | | the pavement | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pavement=Location | | 4 | **not** **get up** | past · do-support | one of teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **ring** | past | Lily | 999 | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 999=Theme | | 6 | **stay** | past | Lily *not said here* | | | the line | | from Lily's doorway | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Location | | 7 | **come** | past | the ambulance | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:384-when-the-police-come.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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [When the police come, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/14/) - next →: [When the police come, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/)