Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 16
A car going at speed needs many metres to stop, even when the driver has seen you.
Who acts: car, driver · What happens: go, need, stop, see · To what, where: speed, many metres, you
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 (car, driver), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 car | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 speed | case |
| 5 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 metres | amod |
| 8 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 needs | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stop | mark |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 needs | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 needs | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 seen | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 seen | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 driver | det |
| 15 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 needs | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | a car not said here | speed | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a car | many metres | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | a car not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | the driver | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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:16.
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. 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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