In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 4
A girl in Colorado opens her car door with her far hand; her body turns, she looks back and sees a cyclist coming, so she waits — this is called the Dutch reach.
Who acts: girl, body, cyclist · What happens: open, turn, look back, see, come, wait · To what, where: car door, cyclist, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, body, cyclist), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Colorado | case |
| 4 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 door | nmod:poss |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | compound |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | amod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 turns | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turns | nsubj |
| 16 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opens | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looks | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looks | nsubj |
| 19 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 turns | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 looks | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sees | cc |
| 22 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 looks | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cyclist | det |
| 24 | cyclist | cyclist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sees | obj |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 sees | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 waits | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 waits | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 waits | nsubj |
| 29 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 looks | conj |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 called | punct |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 called | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 called | aux:pass |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 opens | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 reach | det |
| 35 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 reach | amod |
| 36 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 called | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | a girl in Colorado | girl's car door | with girl's far hand | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with hand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | turn | present | girl's body | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look back | present | body | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | present | body not said here | a cyclist | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | a cyclist not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wait | present | body | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:4.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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