Sounds that warn, sentence 6
A siren means an emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance, a fire engine or a police car, is coming.
Who acts: siren, emergency vehicle · What happens: mean, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» 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 (siren, emergency vehicle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 siren | det |
| 2 | siren | siren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vehicle | det |
| 5 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vehicle | compound |
| 6 | vehicle | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ambulance | punct |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 ambulance | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ambulance | det |
| 11 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vehicle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 engine | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 engine | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engine | compound |
| 15 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ambulance | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 car | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 car | det |
| 18 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 car | compound |
| 19 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engine | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 coming | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 coming | aux |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 means | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a siren | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | a emergency vehicle such a ambulance and a fire engine or a police car | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:6.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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