Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 15
The same number on a speed sign means a faster speed in miles per hour than in kilometres per hour.
Who acts: same number · What happens: mean · To what, where: faster speed
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 (same number), 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 | 3 number | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sign | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sign | det |
| 6 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sign | compound |
| 7 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 number | nmod |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 speed | det |
| 10 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 speed | amod |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 miles | case |
| 13 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 speed | nmod |
| 14 | per | per | ADP | _ | 15 hour | case |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 miles | nmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 kilometres | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 kilometres | case |
| 18 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hour | nmod |
| 19 | per | per | ADP | _ | 20 hour | case |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kilometres | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the same number on a speed sign | a faster speed | in miles per hour than kilometres per hour | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot speed=Theme in mile=Attribute |
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:15.
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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