In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 12

Using a phone while driving causes many crashes and is against the law in many places, and a child may kindly remind a parent.

Who acts: Using, child · What happens: use, drive, cause, be, remind · To what, where: phone, many crashes, many places, parent

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 (Using, child), 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	Using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 causes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 driving	mark
5	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Using	advcl
6	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crashes	amod
8	crashes	crash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 causes	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 law	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 law	cop
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 law	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 law	det
13	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 places	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 places	amod
16	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 law	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remind	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 remind	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remind	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 remind	aux
22	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	23 remind	advmod
23	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 causes	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 parent	det
25	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remind	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 causes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		a phone				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient
2	drive	gerund						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	cause	present	Using	many crashes				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition crash=Patient
4	is	present	Using not said here			many places	against the law	tree rules
5	remind speech: other	may	a child		a parent		kindly property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

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:12.

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): R7-rel-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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