Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 3

A big truck or lorry has blind spots where the driver cannot see a bike at all, so a cyclist never rides up the inside of a truck at a junction.

Who acts: big truck, driver, cyclist · What happens: have, not see, not ride up · To what, where: blind spots, bike, all, inside, junction

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 (big truck, driver, cyclist), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 truck	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 truck	amod
3	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 lorry	cc
5	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 truck	conj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spots	amod
8	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 see	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 driver	det
11	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spots	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bike	det
16	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 see	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rides	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 rides	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cyclist	det
22	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rides	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 rides	advmod
24	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 rides	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 inside	det
27	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rides	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 truck	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 truck	det
30	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 inside	nmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 junction	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 junction	det
33	junction	junction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rides	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a big truck or lorry	blind spots		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
2	not see	can	the driver	a bike	all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bike=Stimulus
3	not ride up	present	a cyclist	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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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