Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 17
Cross a river only on a bridge or with a grown-up who says it is safe, because wet stones and logs are slippery.
Who acts: you, up, water, wet stones · What happens: cross, grow up, say, be · To what, where: river, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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, up, water, wet stones), 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 | Cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cross | obj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 bridge | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bridge | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cross | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 grown | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 grown | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 up | det |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 bridge | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grown | compound:prt |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 up | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 safe | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 safe | cop |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 says | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 slippery | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 slippery | mark |
| 21 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stones | amod |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 slippery | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 logs | cc |
| 24 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stones | conj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 slippery | cop |
| 26 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cross | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cross | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | imperative | you not said here | a river | a bridge | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow up | participle | you not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | a up | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | water | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | wet stones and logs | slippery property | tree rules |
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:231-campfires-and-rivers.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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