Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 20
Waiting your turn on stairs and bus steps keeps the smallest children from being knocked down.
Who acts: Waiting · What happens: wait, keep, knock down · To what, where: turn, stairs, smallest children
This is a sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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 (Waiting), 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 | Waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 keeps | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nmod:poss |
| 3 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waiting | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 stairs | case |
| 5 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Waiting | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 steps | cc |
| 7 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steps | compound |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stairs | conj |
| 9 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 11 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 children | amod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keeps | obj |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 knocked | mark |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 knocked | aux:pass |
| 15 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 keeps | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 knocked | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | your turn | stairs and bus steps | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | Waiting | the smallest children | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | knock down | gerund · passive | Waiting not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
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:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:20.
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 ×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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