Money, work and the big choices, sentence 17

In the UK you can start learning to drive at seventeen and must pass a theory test and a practical test; L plates show a learner.

Who acts: you, L plates · What happens: start, learn, drive, pass, show · To what, where: UK, seventeen, theory test, learner

This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» 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 (you, L plates), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 UK	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 UK	det
3	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 start	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 start	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 start	aux
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 start	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 drive	mark
9	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 learning	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 seventeen	case
11	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 drive	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pass	cc
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pass	aux
14	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 drive	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 test	det
16	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 test	compound
17	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 test	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 test	det
20	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 test	amod
21	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 test	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 show	punct
23	L	L	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 plates	compound
24	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 show	nsubj
25	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 start	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 learner	det
27	learner	learner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 show	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 start	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	start	can	you		the UK	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	learn	gerund	you not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drive	to-infinitive	you not said here		seventeen	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	pass	must	you not said here	a theory test and a practical test		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory
5	show	present	L plates	a learner		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent learner=Recipient

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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:17.

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): no change. 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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