Sounds that warn, sentence 9
A car horn is a warning that a driver thinks someone may be in danger.
Who acts: car horn, driver, someone · What happens: be, think · To what, where: warning, danger · 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 (car horn, driver, someone), 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 | 3 horn | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horn | compound |
| 3 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warning | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warning | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 warning | det |
| 6 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 thinks | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 driver | det |
| 9 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinks | nsubj |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warning | acl:relcl |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 danger | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 danger | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 danger | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 danger | case |
| 15 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinks | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warning | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a car horn | a warning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | a driver | a warning | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | may | someone | danger | tree rules |
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:9.
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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