Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 0

The pavement (the sidewalk in the USA and Canada) is shared by everyone, and the road beside it belongs to fast, heavy cars that need many metres to stop.

Who acts: everyone, fast heavy cars · What happens: share, belong, need, stop · To what, where: pavement, many metres

This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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 (everyone, fast heavy cars), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pavement	det
2	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shared	nsubj:pass
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 sidewalk	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sidewalk	det
5	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pavement	appos
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 USA	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 USA	det
8	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sidewalk	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Canada	cc
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 USA	conj
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 sidewalk	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 shared	aux:pass
13	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 everyone	case
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 shared	obl:agent
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 road	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 road	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shared	conj
20	beside	beside	ADV	_	22 belongs	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 road	nmod
22	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 shared	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 cars	case
24	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cars	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cars	punct
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cars	amod
27	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 belongs	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 need	nsubj
29	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cars	acl:relcl
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 metres	amod
31	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 need	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stop	mark
33	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 metres	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 shared	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share	present · passive	everyone	the pavement		tree rules
2	belong	present	everyone not said here		to fast heavy cars; beside property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	need	present	fast heavy cars	many metres		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme
4	stop	to-infinitive	fast heavy cars not said here	many metres not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:0.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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