Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 15

"Dogs must be carried on the escalator" means that if you have a dog with you, you must carry it; it does not mean everyone must carry a dog.

Who acts: you, it, everyone · What happens: carry, mean, have, not mean · To what, where: Dogs, escalator, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english 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, it, everyone), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct
2	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carried	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 carried	aux:pass
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 means	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 escalator	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 escalator	det
8	escalator	escalator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 carry	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 carry	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 carry	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 carry	aux
22	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carry	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 mean	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 mean	nsubj
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 mean	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 mean	advmod
28	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	parataxis
29	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 carry	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 carry	aux
31	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 mean	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dog	det
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carry	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry in a quote	must · passive		Dogs	the escalator		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a dog		with you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
4	carry	must	you	escalator			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not mean	present · do-support	it				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	carry	must	everyone	a dog			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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, 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:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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