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title: A child hit by a car is much more likely to be badly hurt than an ad… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics
description: A child hit by a car is much more likely to be badly hurt than an adult, because the car hits the head and body. Who acts: child, car. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Crossing the road, sentence 19

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A child hit by a car is much more likely to be badly hurt than an adult, because the car hits the head and body.

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**Who acts:** child, car · **What happens:** hit, be, hurt · **To what, where:** child, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» 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 (child, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:19
# text = A child hit by a car is much more likely to be badly hurt than an adult, because the car hits the head and body.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 041-crossing-the-road.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	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | participle |  | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | a child |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | to-infinitive · passive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than a adult; badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **hit** | present | the car | the head and body |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:19`.

**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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