--- title: A girl in Manchester stepped out from between two parked vans; the d… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Manchester stepped out from between two parked vans; the driver coming along could not see her until the last second, and only just managed to swerve. Who acts: girl, driver. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Crossing the road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/) / 6 # Crossing the road, sentence 6 A girl in Manchester stepped out from between two parked vans; the driver coming along could not see her until the last second, and only just managed to swerve. **Who acts:** girl, driver · **What happens:** step out, park, come along, not see, manage, swerve · **To what, where:** two parked vans, girl 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 (girl, driver), 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:6 # text = A girl in Manchester stepped out from between two parked vans; the driver coming along could not see her until the last second, and only just managed to swerve. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 vans van NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 along along ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 until until ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 swerve swerve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . 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 | **step out** | past | a girl in Manchester | | | two parked vans | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between van=Trajectory | | 2 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come along** | gerund | the driver *not said here* | | | | | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **see** | could | the driver | girl | | | second | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 5 | **manage** | past | the driver *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **swerve** | to-infinitive | the driver *not said here* | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Crossing the road, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/5/) - next →: [Crossing the road, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/)