Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 7
People looking at a phone while walking drift off line and notice less around them.
Who acts: People · What happens: look, walk, drift off, notice · To what, where: line, less
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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 (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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drift | nsubj |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 People | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 phone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 phone | det |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 walking | mark |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looking | advcl |
| 8 | drift | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 drift | compound:prt |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drift | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 notice | cc |
| 12 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drift | conj |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 notice | obj |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 notice | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drift | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | People not said here | at a phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | People not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drift off | present | People | line | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | notice | present | People not said here | less | around people | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer less=Stimulus |
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:011-eyes-up.lesson:7.
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 ×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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