Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 22

Rushing because you are late is when many children run into roads without looking, so missing a bus is better than being hit.

Who acts: you, many children · What happens: rush, be, look, miss, hit · To what, where: roads, bus

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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, many children), 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	Rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 run	csubj
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 late	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 late	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 late	cop
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rushing	advcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 run	cop
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 run	nsubj
10	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 roads	case
12	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 run	obl
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 looking	mark
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 run	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 missing	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 missing	advmod
17	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 looking	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bus	det
19	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 missing	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 better	cop
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 missing	ccomp
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 hit	mark
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 hit	aux:pass
24	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 better	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 run	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you			late property	tree rules
3	is	present	many children		roads	run property	tree rules
4	look	gerund	many children not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	miss	gerund	many children not said here	a bus			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus
6	is	present	many children not said here			good property	tree rules
7	hit	gerund · passive	many children not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»

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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:22.

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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