Thinking about noticing, sentence 17
Electric cars and bikes can be very quiet at low speeds, so you must look as well as listen.
Who acts: Electric cars, you · What happens: be, look, listen · To what, where: low speeds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» 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 (Electric cars, you), 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 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cars | amod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bikes | cc |
| 4 | bikes | bike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cars | conj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 quiet | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 quiet | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 quiet | advmod |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 speeds | case |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speeds | amod |
| 11 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quiet | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 look | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 look | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 quiet | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 20 listen | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 listen | advmod |
| 20 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 look | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Electric cars and bikes | low speeds | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | must | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:17.
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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