--- title: A girl in Scotland walked along a country road at night in dark clot… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Scotland walked along a country road at night in dark clothes; a driver saw her only at the last moment and nearly hit her. Who acts: girl, 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, driver), 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:6 # text = A girl in Scotland walked along a country road at night in dark clothes; a driver saw her only at the last moment and nearly hit her. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×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 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 along along ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 5 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 at at 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 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **walk** | past | a girl in Scotland | | | dark clothes | night | along a country road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | | 2 | **see** | past | a driver | girl | | | moment | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 3 | **hit** | past | a driver *not said here* | girl | | | | nearly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=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: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): 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: [Buses, trains and being seen, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/5/) - next →: [Buses, trains and being seen, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/)