Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 21
People looking at phones while crossing miss cars they would otherwise have seen.
Who acts: People, cars · What happens: look, crossing, miss, see · To what, where: cars
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 (People, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 miss | nsubj |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 People | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 phones | case |
| 4 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looking | obl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 crossing | mark |
| 6 | crossing | crossing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 looking | advcl |
| 7 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 miss | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 11 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 cars | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 miss | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | People not said here | at phones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crossing | gerund | People not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | miss | present | People | cars | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | would · perfect | cars = car | cars not said here | otherwise property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=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:21.
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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