Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 6

Ball games belong in a park, a yard or a playground, not on the pavement, because a ball can roll into the road and a child may chase it without looking.

Who acts: Ball games, ball, child · What happens: belong, roll, chase, look · To what, where: park, road, ball

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 (Ball games, ball, child), 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	Ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 games	compound
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 belong	nsubj
3	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 park	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 park	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belong	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yard	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 park	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 playground	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 playground	det
12	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yard	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pavement	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 pavement	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 pavement	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pavement	det
17	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yard	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 roll	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 roll	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ball	det
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roll	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 roll	aux
23	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 belong	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 road	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 road	det
26	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roll	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 chase	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chase	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 chase	aux
31	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 roll	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 chase	obj
33	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 looking	mark
34	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 chase	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 belong	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	belong	present	Ball games		a park and a yard or a playground and the pavement	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	roll	can	a ball		the road	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination
3	chase	may	a child	ball		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	look	gerund	a child not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:6.

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, 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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