Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 15
The driver of a truck or lorry cannot see a cyclist in its blind spots, and a truck may turn across the inside lane at a junction; if you cannot see the driver's face in the truck's mirror, the driver cannot see you either.
Who acts: driver, truck, you · What happens: not see, turn · To what, where: cyclist, blind spots, inside lane, face, mirror, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 (driver, truck, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 truck | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 truck | det |
| 5 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 driver | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 lorry | cc |
| 7 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 truck | conj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cyclist | det |
| 12 | cyclist | cyclist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spots | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 spots | nmod:poss |
| 15 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spots | amod |
| 16 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turn | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 turn | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 truck | det |
| 20 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turn | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 turn | aux |
| 22 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | conj |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 lane | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lane | det |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lane | amod |
| 26 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turn | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 junction | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 junction | det |
| 29 | junction | junction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turn | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 see | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 see | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 see | advmod |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 see | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 driver | det |
| 37 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 face | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 driver | case |
| 39 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 see | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 mirror | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 truck | det |
| 42 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 mirror | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 truck | case |
| 44 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 see | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 see | punct |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 driver | det |
| 47 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 see | nsubj |
| 48 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 see | aux |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 see | advmod |
| 50 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | parataxis |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 see | obj |
| 52 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 50 see | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | the driver of a truck or lorry | a cyclist | driver's blind spots | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cyclist=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn | may | a truck | the inside lane | at a junction | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme across lane=Source at junction=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | not see a condition, not said to happen | can | you | the driver's face | the truck's mirror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not see | can | the driver | you | either property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:15.
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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