In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 11

Carsickness gets better by looking out of the front window at the horizon and getting fresh air; reading or looking at a screen makes it worse.

Who acts: Carsickness, reading · What happens: get, look out, read, look, make · To what, where: front window, horizon, fresh air, air

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 (Carsickness, reading), 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	Carsickness	carsickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 gets	xcomp
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 looking	mark
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gets	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	10 window	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
9	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 window	amod
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 horizon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horizon	det
13	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 getting	cc
15	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 looking	conj
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 air	amod
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 getting	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
19	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 makes	csubj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 looking	cc
21	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 reading	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 screen	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 screen	det
24	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gets	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 makes	obj
27	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 makes	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	Carsickness			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	look out	gerund	Carsickness not said here	the front window	the horizon		tree rules
3	get	gerund	Carsickness not said here	fresh air			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus
4	read	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund				at a screen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme
6	make	present	reading	air		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:11.

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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