Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 17

In many places in the USA, crossing in the middle of a block (jaywalking) is against local rules and more dangerous than crossing at a corner or crosswalk.

Who acts: crossing · What happens: cross, be · To what, where: middle, many places, corner

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 (crossing), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 places	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 places	amod
3	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dangerous	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 USA	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 USA	det
6	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 places	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 places	punct
8	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 dangerous	csubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crossing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 block	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 block	det
14	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 middle	nmod
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 jaywalking	punct
16	jaywalking	jaywalking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 block	appos
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 jaywalking	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dangerous	cop
19	against	against	ADP	_	21 rules	case
20	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rules	amod
21	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dangerous	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dangerous	cc
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 dangerous	advmod
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 crossing	mark
26	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 dangerous	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 corner	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 corner	det
29	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crossing	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 crosswalk	cc
31	crosswalk	crosswalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 corner	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund		the middle of a block		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	crossing	many places in the USA	against local rules; dangerous property	tree rules
3	cross	gerund	crossing not said here	a corner or crosswalk		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): no change. 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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