Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 4

A small child next to a busy road is held by the hand and kept on the side away from the traffic, because small children can dart into the road.

Who acts: hand, small children · What happens: hold, keep, dart · To what, where: small child, side, road

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 (hand, small children), 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	3 child	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	nsubj:pass
4	next	next	ADV	_	3 child	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 road	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 road	amod
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 next	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 held	aux:pass
10	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hand	det
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	obl:agent
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
15	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 held	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obl
19	away	away	ADV	_	15 kept	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 traffic	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 traffic	det
22	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 away	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dart	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 dart	mark
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 children	amod
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dart	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 dart	aux
28	dart	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 kept	advcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 road	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 road	det
31	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dart	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 held	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present · passive	the hand	a small child			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	keep	participle	the hand not said here		the side	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
3	dart	can	small children		the road		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination

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:4.

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 ×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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