Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 6
When walking a small child beside a busy road, hold their hand and keep them on the side away from the traffic.
Who acts: you · What happens: walk, hold, keep · To what, where: small child, busy road, hand, eyebrows, side
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 walking | mark |
| 2 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hold | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obj |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 walking | punct |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 hold | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 traffic | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 traffic | det |
| 23 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 away | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | you not said here | a small child | a busy road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent child=Theme beside road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hold | imperative | you not said here | eyebrows's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | eyebrows = eyebrow | the side | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on side=Location |
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:6.
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. 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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