Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 9
Many buses and trains have priority seats for people who find standing hard.
Who acts: Many buses, people · What happens: have, find, stand · To what, where: priority seats
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 (Many buses, people), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 buses | amod |
| 2 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 trains | cc |
| 4 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 buses | conj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | priority | priority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seats | compound |
| 7 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seats | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 find | nsubj |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 find | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many buses and trains | priority seats | for people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | present | people | hard property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.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): 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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