Police, courts and prison, sentence 15
A speed camera photographs cars going over the limit, and the driver must pay a fine and may get points on their licence.
Who acts: speed camera, cars, driver, drivers · What happens: photograph, go, pay, get, licence · To what, where: cars, limit, fine, points, licence
This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speed camera, cars, driver, drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 camera | det |
| 2 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 camera | compound |
| 3 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 photographs | nsubj |
| 4 | photographs | photograph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 photographs | obj |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 cars | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 limit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 limit | det |
| 9 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pay | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 driver | det |
| 13 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pay | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 pay | aux |
| 15 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fine | det |
| 17 | fine | fine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pay | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pay | conj |
| 21 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 licence | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 licence | nmod:poss |
| 24 | licence | licence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 photographs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | photograph | present | a speed camera | cars | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | cars not said here | the limit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over limit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pay | must | the driver | a fine | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset | ||||
| 4 | get | may | the driver not said here | points | drivers's licence | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent point=Theme on licence=Source | |||
| 5 | licence | drivers = driver | nom licence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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, 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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:15.
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): 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.
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