Crossing the road, sentence 1
The safe routine is: find a safe place to cross, stop at the edge, look both ways and listen, wait until no traffic is coming, then walk straight across, still looking and listening.
Who acts: safe routine, traffic · What happens: be, cross, stop, look, listen, wait · To what, where: edge, ways
This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» 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 (safe routine, traffic), 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 | 3 routine | det |
| 2 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 routine | amod |
| 3 | routine | routine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | cop |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cross | mark |
| 11 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 place | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 edge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 edge | det |
| 16 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stop | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | conj |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 ways | det |
| 20 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 listen | cc |
| 22 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 look | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wait | punct |
| 24 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | conj |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 coming | mark |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 traffic | det |
| 27 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 coming | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 coming | aux |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 wait | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 walk | punct |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 walk | advmod |
| 32 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | conj |
| 33 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 34 across | advmod |
| 34 | across | across | ADV | _ | 32 walk | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 looking | punct |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 37 looking | advmod |
| 37 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 walk | advcl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 listening | cc |
| 39 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 looking | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the safe routine | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | the safe routine not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | infinitive | the safe routine not said here | the edge | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | the safe routine not said here | both ways | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | listen | infinitive | the safe routine not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wait | infinitive | the safe routine not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | come | present · progressive | no traffic | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | walk | infinitive | the safe routine not said here | then | across property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 9 | look | gerund | the safe routine not said here | still | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | listen | gerund | the safe routine not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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