Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 22
Pickpockets look for open bags and back pockets in busy places, because money there is easy to take.
Who acts: Pickpockets, money · What happens: look, be, take
This is a sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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 (Pickpockets, money), 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 | Pickpockets | pickpocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 bags | case |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bags | amod |
| 5 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pockets | cc |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pockets | compound |
| 8 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bags | conj | |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pockets | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 easy | mark |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 easy | nsubj |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 easy | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 easy | cop |
| 17 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 easy | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | 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 | look | present | Pickpockets | for open bags and back pockets in busy places | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | money | there | easy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | money not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:22.
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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