Crossing the road, sentence 2

Which way you look first depends on the side the traffic drives on: you look first towards the lane nearest to you, because those cars reach you first.

Who acts: you, way, traffic, cars · What happens: look, depend, drive on, reach · To what, where: way, side, you

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 (you, way, traffic, cars), 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depends	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 way	acl:relcl
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 look	advmod
6	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depends	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 traffic	det
11	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drives	nsubj
12	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 side	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 drives	compound:prt
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 look	nsubj
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 depends	parataxis
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 look	advmod
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 lane	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lane	det
20	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
21	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 lane	amod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 nearest	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reach	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 reach	mark
26	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 cars	det
27	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reach	nsubj
28	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 look	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 reach	obj
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 reach	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 depends	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	you	which way not said here	first property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute
2	depend	present	which way		on the side	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on side=Theme
3	drive on	present	the traffic	the side not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory
4	look	present	you		towards the lane; first property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards lane=Theme
5	reach	present	that cars	you	first property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=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:2.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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