Sounds that warn, sentence 8
Drivers pull over to let emergency vehicles through, so traffic at a crossing can change suddenly.
Who acts: Drivers, traffic · What happens: pull over, let, change · To what, where: emergency vehicles
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 (Drivers, traffic), 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 | Drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pull | nsubj |
| 2 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | PART | _ | 2 pull | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pull | advcl |
| 6 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vehicles | compound |
| 7 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADV | _ | 5 let | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 change | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 change | advmod |
| 11 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 crossing | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crossing | det |
| 14 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 traffic | nmod |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | aux |
| 16 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pull | parataxis |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 change | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pull | 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 | pull over | present | Drivers | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | Drivers not said here | emergency vehicles | through property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vehicle=Theme | |||
| 3 | change | can | traffic at a crossing | suddenly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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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