Crossing the road, sentence 8
Before crossing you stop at the kerb, look both ways and listen for traffic.
Who acts: you · What happens: cross, stop, look, listen · To what, where: kerb, ways
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), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 crossing | mark |
| 2 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 kerb | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kerb | det |
| 7 | kerb | kerb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | parataxis |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ways | det |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 look | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 listen | cc |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 traffic | case |
| 15 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 listen | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | gerund | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | you | the kerb | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | both ways | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | listen | infinitive | for traffic | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for traffic=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:8.
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): 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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