Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 2
That is why you never pick up something you dropped near the bus — you tell the driver first — and you cross only when the bus has left and you can see the road clearly.
Who acts: That, you, bus · What happens: be, not pick up, drop, tell, cross, leave · To what, where: something, bus, driver, road · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, you, bus), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pick | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 pick | advmod |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pick | compound:prt |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 pick | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 dropped | nsubj |
| 10 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 something | acl:relcl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 bus | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bus | det |
| 13 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dropped | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pick | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 driver | det |
| 18 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 tell | advmod |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cross | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 cross | nsubj |
| 23 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pick | conj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 left | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 left | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bus | det |
| 27 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | aux |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 cross | advcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 see | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 see | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 see | aux |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 left | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 road | det |
| 35 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obj |
| 36 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 33 see | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pick up | present | you | something | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | you | the bus | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near bus=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | you | the driver | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient | |||
| 5 | cross | present | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | present · perfect | the bus | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | can | you | the road | clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
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:2.
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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