Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 14
The USA and the UK use miles per hour; Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland use kilometres per hour.
Who acts: USA, Canada · What happens: use · To what, where: miles, kilometres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» 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 (USA, Canada), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 USA | det |
| 2 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 use | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 UK | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 UK | det |
| 5 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 USA | conj |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 use | obj |
| 8 | per | per | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 miles | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Canada | punct |
| 11 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 use | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Australia | punct |
| 13 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Canada | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Zealand | punct |
| 15 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Zealand | flat |
| 16 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Canada | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Ireland | cc |
| 18 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Canada | conj |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | parataxis |
| 20 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 use | obj |
| 21 | per | per | ADP | _ | 22 hour | case |
| 22 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kilometres | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | the USA and the UK | miles | per hour | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient | |||
| 2 | use | present | Canada and Australia and New Zealand and Ireland | kilometres | per hour | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Patient |
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:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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