Crossing the road, sentence 14
Quiet electric cars can be very hard to hear, so your eyes matter as much as your ears.
Who acts: Quiet electric cars, eyes · What happens: be, hear, matter
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 (Quiet electric cars, eyes), 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 | Quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cars | amod |
| 2 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cars | amod |
| 3 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hard | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hard | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hard | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hard | csubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 matter | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 matter | advmod |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 matter | nsubj |
| 14 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hard | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 matter | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 ears | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ears | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 matter | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Quiet electric cars | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | matter | present | your eyes | as your ears | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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