Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 5
You learn your postcode or ZIP code, because it helps letters to be delivered quickly.
Who acts: You, driver, letters · What happens: learn, help, deliver · To what, where: postcode, letters
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, driver, letters), 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 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 postcode | nmod:poss |
| 4 | postcode | postcode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learn | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 code | cc |
| 6 | ZIP | zip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 code | compound |
| 7 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 postcode | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 helps | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 helps | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 helps | nsubj |
| 11 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 learn | advcl |
| 12 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 helps | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 delivered | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 delivered | aux:pass |
| 15 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 helps | xcomp |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 delivered | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | You | your postcode or ZIP code | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent postcode=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help | present | driver | letters | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent letter=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deliver | to-infinitive · passive | letters not said here | quickly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP» |
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:5.
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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