Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 16
A signpost arrow shows the way to a town and the number shows how far it is; in the UK that number is in miles.
Who acts: signpost arrow, number · What happens: show, be · To what, where: way, town, UK
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 (signpost arrow, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 arrow | det |
| 2 | signpost | signpost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrow | compound |
| 3 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shows | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shows | nsubj |
| 13 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shows | conj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 shows | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 far | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 far | cop |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 UK | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 UK | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 UK | det |
| 21 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 miles | obl |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 number | det |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 miles | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 miles | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 miles | case |
| 26 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shows | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a signpost arrow | the way | a town | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to town=Recipient | |||
| 2 | show | present | the number | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | number | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that number | the UK | in miles | tree rules |
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:16.
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): R8-pos-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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