Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 8
On a crowded bus or train, offer your seat to an older, pregnant or disabled person, because they may need it more than you.
Who acts: you, trains · What happens: offer, need · To what, where: seat, older person, crowded bus
This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 (you, trains), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 bus | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bus | det |
| 3 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bus | amod |
| 4 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 train | cc |
| 6 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bus | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bus | punct |
| 8 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 seat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 person | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 person | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pregnant | punct |
| 15 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 older | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 disabled | cc |
| 17 | disabled | disable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pregnant | conj |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 need | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 need | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 need | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 need | aux |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 offer | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 need | obj |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 need | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 more | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | imperative | you not said here | your seat | a older person | a crowded bus or train | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent seat=Theme to person=Goal | ||
| 2 | need | may | trains = train | seat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:8.
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): 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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