Crossing the road, sentence 18
A car going at 30 miles per hour needs about 23 metres to stop, which is about five car lengths.
Who acts: car, 23 metres · What happens: go, need, stop, be · To what, where: 23 metres, five car lengths
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 (car, 23 metres), 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 | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 car | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 miles | case |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 miles | nummod |
| 6 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 going | obl |
| 7 | per | per | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 miles | nmod |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 23 | advmod |
| 11 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 metres | nummod |
| 12 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 needs | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stop | mark |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 metres | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lengths | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lengths | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lengths | cop |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 five | advmod |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 lengths | nummod |
| 20 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lengths | compound |
| 21 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 metres | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | a car not said here | at 30 miles per hour | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at mile=Location | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a car | 23 metres | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | a car not said here | 23 metres not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | 23 metres | five car lengths | tree rules |
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:18.
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): no change. 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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