What to do if you are lost, sentence 9
Searchers find people faster when they stay put, because searchers start looking where the person was last seen.
Who acts: Searchers · What happens: find, stay, put, start, look, see · To what, where: people, person
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 (Searchers), 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 | Searchers | searcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 find | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 stay | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | advcl |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stay | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 start | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 start | mark |
| 11 | searchers | searcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 start | nsubj |
| 12 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | advcl |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 start | xcomp |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 seen | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | last | last | ADV | _ | 19 seen | advmod |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 looking | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | 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 | find | present | Searchers | people | fast property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | |||
| 2 | stay | present | Searchers = searcher | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | Searchers = searcher not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start | present | searchers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | look | gerund | searchers not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see | past · passive | the person | last property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:017-if-you-are-lost.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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