--- title: A boy in Texas ran around the front of his school bus to cross the r… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas ran around the front of his school bus to cross the road; a car passing the bus did not stop, and it hit him. Who acts: boy, 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, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Texas ran around the front of his school bus to cross the road; a car passing the bus did not stop, and it hit him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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, R7-rel-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 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | a boy in Texas | | | the front of boy's school bus | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around front=Trajectory | | 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | a boy in Texas *not said here* | the road | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 3 | **pass** | gerund | a car *not said here* | the bus | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bus=Trajectory | | 4 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | a car | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **hit** | past | car | boy | | | | | 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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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: [Buses, trains and being seen, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/4/) - next →: [Buses, trains and being seen, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/)