Crossing the road, sentence 7
A moving car cannot stop at once; the faster it goes, the longer it takes to stop.
Who acts: moving car, car, it · What happens: move, not stop, go, take, stop
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 (moving car, car, it), 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 | 3 car | det |
| 2 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 car | amod |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stop | advmod |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | _ | 6 stop | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 faster | det |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 goes | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 takes | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goes | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 longer | det |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 takes | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 takes | nsubj |
| 18 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stop | mark |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 takes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | 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 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not stop | can | a moving car | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 3 | go | present | car | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | present | it | long property | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:7.
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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