Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 15
You stay well away from a big machine that is reversing, because the driver cannot see you.
Who acts: You, big machine, driver · What happens: stay, reverse, not see · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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, big machine, driver), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 stay | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 machine | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 machine | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 machine | amod |
| 8 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 reversing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 reversing | aux |
| 11 | reversing | reverse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 machine | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 driver | det |
| 15 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stay | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | You | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reverse | present · progressive | a big machine | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not see | can | the driver | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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