Police, courts and prison, sentence 16
Speed limits exist because faster cars cause worse accidents, especially near schools and homes.
Who acts: Speed limits, faster cars · What happens: exist, cause · To what, where: worse accidents, schools
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 limits, faster cars), 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 | Speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 limits | compound |
| 2 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 exist | nsubj |
| 3 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 cause | mark |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 cars | amod |
| 6 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cause | nsubj |
| 7 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 exist | advcl |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 accidents | amod |
| 9 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cause | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 schools | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 schools | advmod |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 schools | case |
| 13 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cause | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 homes | cc |
| 15 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 schools | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exist | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | Speed limits | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cause | present | faster cars | worse accidents | schools and homes | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=Patient |
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:16.
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 ×2. 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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