--- title: A girl in Auckland crossed at a zebra crossing without looking becau… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Auckland crossed at a zebra crossing without looking because she thought cars must stop; a driver did not see her and braked only just in time. Who acts: girl, cars, driver. 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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 (girl, cars, driver), 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:6 # text = A girl in Auckland crossed at a zebra crossing without looking because she thought cars must stop; a driver did not see her and braked only just in time. # 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): 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 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 15 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 braked brake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 girl in Auckland | | | a zebra crossing | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | a girl in Auckland *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | girl | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | must | cars | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | a driver | girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 6 | **brake** | past | a driver *not said here* | | | | time | | tree rules | 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: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: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/5/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/)