Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 11
If the shoulder belt rubs your neck, you are probably too small for it; ask for a booster seat, a raised seat that lifts a child so the belt fits.
Who acts: shoulder belt, you, raised seat, belt · What happens: rub, be, ask, raise, lift, fit · To what, where: neck, child
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» 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 (shoulder belt, you, raised seat, belt), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 rubs | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 belt | det |
| 3 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belt | compound |
| 4 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubs | nsubj |
| 5 | rubs | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 small | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubs | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 small | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 small | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 small | cop |
| 11 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 13 small | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 small | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 small | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 small | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 seat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 seat | det |
| 20 | booster | booster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seat | compound |
| 21 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seat | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 seat | det |
| 24 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 seat | amod |
| 25 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seat | appos |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lifts | nsubj |
| 27 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 seat | acl:relcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 child | det |
| 29 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lifts | obj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 fits | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 belt | det |
| 32 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fits | nsubj |
| 33 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 lifts | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 small | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub a condition, not said to happen | present | the shoulder belt | your neck | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | for belt; probably, small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | for a booster seat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lift | present | a raised seat | a child | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fit | present | the belt | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:11.
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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