Crossing the road, sentence 9
You cross only when no traffic is coming, and you keep looking and listening while you cross.
Who acts: You, traffic · What happens: cross, come, keep, look, listen
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, traffic), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 cross | nsubj |
| 2 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 coming | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 coming | advmod |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 traffic | det |
| 6 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 coming | aux |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cross | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cross | conj |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 listening | cc |
| 15 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 looking | conj |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 cross | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cross | nsubj |
| 18 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 looking | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cross | 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 | cross | present | You | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | no traffic | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | listen | gerund | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cross | present | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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, R6-punct-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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