--- title: In London the nearest cars come from the right, so a boy from New Yo… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics description: In London the nearest cars come from the right, so a boy from New York who looks left first, out of habit, sees an empty lane and steps into the one where the danger really is. Who acts: nearest cars, boy, danger. 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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 (nearest cars, boy, danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:4 # text = In London the nearest cars come from the right, so a boy from New York who looks left first, out of habit, sees an empty lane and steps into the one where the danger really is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 16 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 out out ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 26 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 lane lane NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 really really ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | the nearest cars | | | London | | from the right | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **look** | present | a boy from New York | | | habit | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | participle | a boy from New York *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | present | a boy from New York | a empty lane | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lane=Stimulus | | 5 | **step** | present | a boy from New York *not said here* | | | | | into the one | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination | | 6 | **be** | present | the danger | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:4`. **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, 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: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/3/) - next →: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/)