Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 21

Many children are hit on crossings by drivers who did not stop, which is why you wait until cars really have stopped.

Who acts: drivers, you, cars · What happens: hit, not stop, be, wait, stop · To what, where: Many children

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 (drivers, you, cars), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux:pass
4	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 crossings	case
6	crossings	crossing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 drivers	case
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	obl:agent
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stop	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 drivers	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 why	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 why	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 why	cop
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hit	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wait	nsubj
18	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 why	advcl:relcl
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 stopped	mark
20	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stopped	nsubj
21	really	really	ADV	_	23 stopped	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stopped	aux
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 wait	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	present · passive	drivers	Many children	on crossings	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument on crossing=Patient
2	not stop	past · do-support	drivers			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	wait	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stop	present · perfect	cars			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:21.

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 ×2. 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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