--- title: A boy in Toronto crossed when the walk signal had just turned red be… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Toronto crossed when the walk signal had just turned red because the cars had not moved yet; a car turning the corner did not see him and hit him. Who acts: boy, walk signal, cars, car. 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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 (boy, walk signal, cars, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Toronto crossed when the walk signal had just turned red because the cars had not moved yet; a car turning the corner did not see him and hit him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.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 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 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 20 yet yet ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **cross** | past | a boy in Toronto | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | past · perfect | the walk signal | | | | | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **move** | past · perfect | the cars | | | | yet | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | a car *not said here* | the corner | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | | 5 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | a car | signal | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **hit** | past | a car *not said here* | signal | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:5`. **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: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/4/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/)