Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 11
When a bus or car brakes suddenly, the people inside lurch forward.
Who acts: bus, people · What happens: brake, lurch
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (bus, people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 brakes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bus | det |
| 3 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brakes | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 car | cc |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bus | conj |
| 6 | brakes | brake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lurch | advcl |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 brakes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lurch | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lurch | nsubj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 people | advmod |
| 12 | lurch | lurch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 lurch | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lurch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brake | present | a bus or car | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lurch | present | the people | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:11.
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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