Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 7

At a painted crosswalk in the USA, drivers must yield, but some do not, so wait for cars to stop and make eye contact before crossing.

Who acts: drivers, cars · What happens: paint, yield, wait, stop, make, cross · To what, where: painted crosswalk, eye contact

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, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 crosswalk	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crosswalk	det
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 crosswalk	amod
4	crosswalk	crosswalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yield	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 USA	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 USA	det
7	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 crosswalk	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crosswalk	punct
9	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 yield	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 yield	aux
11	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wait	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wait	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wait	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wait	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 wait	advmod
19	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 yield	parataxis
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 stop	mark
21	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stop	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stop	mark
23	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wait	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stop	conj
26	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contact	compound
27	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 crossing	mark
29	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 make	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 yield	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	yield	must	drivers		a painted crosswalk in the USA	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	present · do-support				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	to-infinitive	cars			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	make	infinitive	cars not said here	eye contact		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contact=Product
6	cross	gerund	cars not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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 ×4. 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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