Crossing the road, sentence 19
A child hit by a car is much more likely to be badly hurt than an adult, because the car hits the head and body.
Who acts: child, car · What happens: hit, be, hurt · To what, where: child, head
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 (child, car), 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 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 child | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 car | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 car | det |
| 6 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | obl:agent |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 likely | cop |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 likely | advmod |
| 10 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hurt | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hurt | aux:pass |
| 13 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 hurt | advmod |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 likely | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 adult | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 adult | det |
| 17 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurt | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hits | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 hits | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 car | det |
| 21 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hits | nsubj |
| 22 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 likely | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 head | det |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hits | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 body | cc |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 likely | 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 | hit | participle | a child not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a child | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | to-infinitive · passive | a child not said here | than a adult; badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 4 | hit | present | the car | the head and body | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:19.
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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