--- title: A boy in Leeds was offered sweets and a lift home by a woman he did… — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds was offered sweets and a lift home by a woman he did not know; he got in, and his parents were frightened when he arrived home in a stranger's car, even though he was safe this time. Who acts: woman, boy. 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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 (woman, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:7 # text = A boy in Leeds was offered sweets and a lift home by a woman he did not know; he got in, and his parents were frightened when he arrived home in a stranger's car, even though he was safe this time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 058-strangers-and-tricky-people.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 home home ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 29 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 32 home home ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 though though SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 44 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 45 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 . . 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 | **offer** | past · passive | a woman | a boy in Leeds | | | | home *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal sweet=Theme | | 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | boy | a woman *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | | 3 | **get in** | past | boy | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **frighten** | past · passive | | boy's parents | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 5 | **arrive** | past | boy | | | a stranger's car | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | boy | | | | time | safe *property* | 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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Strangers and tricky people, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/6/) - next →: [Strangers and tricky people, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/)