In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 9
Fingers stay clear of a closing power window, because it can trap and hurt them.
Who acts: Fingers, window · What happens: stay, close, trap, hurt · To what, where: Fingers
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 (Fingers, window), 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 | Fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stay | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 6 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 window | amod |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 window | compound |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clear | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trap | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 trap | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trap | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 trap | aux |
| 13 | trap | trap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stay | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | cc |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trap | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hurt | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Fingers | clear property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | trap | can | window | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hurt | infinitive | window not said here | Fingers = finger | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
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:9.
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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