Holidays of the region, sentence 5

On Halloween, 31 October, children go trick-or-treating with an adult, because it is dark and there is traffic, and visit only houses with their lights on.

Who acts: children, it, traffic, houses · What happens: go, treat, be, visit, light · To what, where: trick, Halloween, houses

This is a sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» 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 (children, it, traffic, houses), 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	_	2 Halloween	case
2	Halloween	Halloween	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 31	punct
4	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Halloween	appos
5	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 31	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Halloween	punct
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dark	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 dark	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 or	punct
13	treating	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 dark	csubj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 adult	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 adult	det
16	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treating	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dark	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 dark	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dark	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dark	cop
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trick	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 is	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dark	conj
25	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 visit	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 visit	cc
28	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	conj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 houses	advmod
30	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 visit	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 lights	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lights	nmod:poss
33	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 houses	nmod
34	on	on	ADV	_	33 lights	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	children	trick	Halloween		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme
2	treat	gerund				with a adult	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with adult=Theme
3	is	present	it			dark property	tree rules
4	be	present	traffic		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	visit	present	children not said here	houses		with houses's lights	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent
6	light		houses = house				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:5.

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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