Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 20
Drivers turning at corners are watching other cars and may not see a child on the crossing.
Who acts: Drivers · What happens: turn, watch, not see · To what, where: corners, other cars, child, crossing
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 (Drivers), 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 | Drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Drivers | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 corners | case |
| 4 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turning | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 watching | aux |
| 6 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cars | amod |
| 8 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 watching | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 watching | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 crossing | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crossing | det |
| 17 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Drivers not said here | corners | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at corner=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | watch | present · progressive | Drivers | other cars | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | may | Drivers not said here | a child | the crossing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=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:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:20.
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, 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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