Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 2
So: hold a small child's hand and keep him on the side away from the traffic; at a crosswalk in the USA wait for cars to stop and make eye contact with the drivers before you cross; never ride up the inside of a truck at a junction.
Who acts: you · What happens: hold, keep, wait, stop, make, cross · To what, where: hand, child, side, crosswalk, eye contact, inside
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 (you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hold | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 child | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 keep | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 traffic | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 traffic | det |
| 18 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 away | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 wait | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 crosswalk | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 crosswalk | det |
| 22 | crosswalk | crosswalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wait | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 USA | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 USA | det |
| 25 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 crosswalk | nmod |
| 26 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 cars | case |
| 28 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 wait | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 stop | mark |
| 30 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wait | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 make | cc |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 stop | conj |
| 33 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 contact | compound |
| 34 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 drivers | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 drivers | det |
| 37 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 contact | nmod |
| 38 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 40 cross | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 cross | nsubj |
| 40 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 make | advcl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 ride | punct |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 43 ride | advmod |
| 43 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | parataxis |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 ride | compound:prt |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 inside | det |
| 46 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ride | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 truck | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 truck | det |
| 49 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 inside | nmod |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 junction | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 junction | det |
| 52 | junction | junction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ride | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | a small child's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | child | the side | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on side=Location | ||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | a crosswalk in the USA | for cars | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crosswalk=Location | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | eye contact | with the drivers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contact=Product | ||||
| 6 | cross | present | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not ride up | infinitive | the inside of a truck | a junction | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Theme |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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