What to do if you are lost, sentence 16
Three blasts on a whistle is a widely known signal for help.
Who acts: Three blasts · What happens: know, be · To what, where: known signal
This is a sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» 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 (Three blasts), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 blasts | nummod |
| 2 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 signal | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 whistle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whistle | det |
| 5 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blasts | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 signal | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 signal | det |
| 8 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 9 known | advmod |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 signal | amod |
| 10 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 signal | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 signal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | widely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Three blasts on a whistle | a known signal | for help | 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:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:16.
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, 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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