Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 14
On the top deck of a double-decker you stay seated and hold the rail on the stairs, because the stairs move with the bus.
Who acts: you, stairs · What happens: stay, seat, hold, move · To what, where: top deck, rail, stairs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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 (you, stairs), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 deck | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 deck | det |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deck | amod |
| 4 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 decker | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 decker | det |
| 7 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 decker | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 double | punct |
| 9 | decker | decker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deck | nmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stay | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hold | cc |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stay | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rail | det |
| 16 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stairs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stairs | det |
| 19 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hold | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 move | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 move | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stairs | det |
| 23 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 move | nsubj |
| 24 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hold | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 bus | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bus | det |
| 27 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 move | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | you | the top deck of a double decker | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seat | participle | you not said here | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | you not said here | the rail | the stairs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rail=Theme on stair=Location | |||
| 4 | move | present | the stairs | with the bus | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:14.
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 ×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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