In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 10
Passengers talk quietly and settle arguments calmly, because the driver must concentrate on the road.
Who acts: Passengers, driver · What happens: talk, settle, concentrate · To what, where: arguments
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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 (Passengers, driver), 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 | Passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 talk | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 settle | cc |
| 5 | settle | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | conj |
| 6 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 settle | obj |
| 7 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 5 settle | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 concentrate | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 concentrate | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 driver | det |
| 11 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 concentrate | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 concentrate | aux |
| 13 | concentrate | concentrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 talk | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 concentrate | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | 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 | talk | present | Passengers | quietly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | settle | present | Passengers not said here | arguments | calmly property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme argument=Location | |||
| 3 | concentrate | must | the driver | on the road | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on road=Topic |
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:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:10.
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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