Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 2
Drivers cannot always see you: a car reversing out of a driveway may not see a child behind it, and a car in the next lane may not see you behind a car that has stopped.
Who acts: Drivers, car · What happens: not see, reverse out, stop · To what, where: you, driveway, child, car
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 (Drivers, car), 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 | Drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 car | det |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | nsubj |
| 10 | reversing | reverse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 car | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 driveway | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 driveway | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 driveway | det |
| 14 | driveway | driveway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reversing | obl |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 car | det |
| 25 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 lane | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lane | det |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lane | amod |
| 29 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 car | nmod |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 see | advmod |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | conj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 car | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 car | det |
| 36 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obl |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 stopped | nsubj |
| 38 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 stopped | aux |
| 39 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 car | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | Drivers | you | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reverse out | gerund | a car not said here | a driveway | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent driveway=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not see | may | a car | a child | behind child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not see | may | a car in the next lane | you | a car | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | stop | present · perfect | a car | 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:2.
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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