Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 8
A train is faster and closer than it looks, so it is easy to misjudge.
Who acts: train · What happens: be, look, misjudge
This is a sentence of the lesson «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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 (train), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 train | det |
| 2 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faster | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 faster | cop |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 closer | cc |
| 6 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 faster | conj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 looks | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 faster | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looks | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 easy | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 easy | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 easy | cop |
| 14 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looks | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 misjudge | mark |
| 16 | misjudge | misjudge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 easy | csubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faster | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a train | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a train not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | present | train | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | present | train not said here | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | misjudge | to-infinitive | tree rules |
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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.lesson:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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