Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 8

When it rains, you stand back from the kerb, because passing cars splash water from the puddles at the edge of the road.

Who acts: it, you, passing cars · What happens: rain, stand back, pass, splash · To what, where: water, puddles

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 (it, you, passing 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 rains	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rains	nsubj
3	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 kerb	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kerb	det
10	kerb	kerb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 splash	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 splash	mark
13	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 cars	amod
14	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 splash	nsubj
15	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	advcl
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 splash	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 puddles	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 puddles	det
19	puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 splash	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 edge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 edge	det
22	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 puddles	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 road	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 edge	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rain	present	it			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	stand back	present	you			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	splash	present	passing cars	water	the puddles at the edge of the road	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=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:8.

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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