Crossing the road, sentence 4

A boy from Ohio visiting London who looks left first, as he does at home, may step out right in front of a bus coming from his right; that is why London paints LOOK RIGHT on the road at many crossings.

Who acts: boy, bus, that, London · What happens: visit, look, do, step out, come, be · To what, where: London, home, front, right, LOOK, road

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 (boy, bus, that, London), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 step	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boy	acl
6	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 visiting	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boy	acl:relcl
9	left	leave	ADV	_	8 looks	advmod
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 looks	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 does	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 does	nsubj
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looks	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 does	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 step	aux
19	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 step	advmod
21	right	right	ADV	_	23 front	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 front	case
23	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 step	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 bus	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bus	det
26	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 front	nmod
27	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bus	acl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 right	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 right	nmod:poss
30	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coming	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 LOOK	punct
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 why	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 why	cop
34	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	36 paints	advmod
35	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 paints	nsubj
36	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 step	parataxis
37	LOOK	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 paints	obj
38	RIGHT	right	ADV	_	37 LOOK	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 road	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 road	det
41	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 paints	obl
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 crossings	case
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 crossings	amod
44	crossings	crossing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 paints	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	gerund	a boy from Ohio not said here	London			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=Co-Agent
2	look	present	a boy from Ohio			first, leave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	do	present	boy		home		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	step out	may	a boy from Ohio		front of a bus	out property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
5	come	gerund	a bus not said here		boy's right		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial_Location
6	is	present	that			why property	tree rules
7	paint	present	London	LOOK	the road	at many crossings	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent look=Theme on road=Destination

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:4.

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 ×2. 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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