Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 0
The safest place to cross is a crossing: drivers expect people there and the crossing gives you a turn to walk.
Who acts: safest place, drivers, crossing · What happens: cross, be, expect, give, walk · To what, where: crossing, people, turn, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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 (safest place, drivers, crossing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 2 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crossing | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cross | mark |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 place | acl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crossing | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crossing | det |
| 8 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 crossing | punct |
| 10 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 expect | nsubj |
| 11 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crossing | parataxis |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 expect | obj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 expect | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gives | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crossing | det |
| 16 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | nsubj |
| 17 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 expect | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 gives | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 turn | det |
| 20 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 walk | mark |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 turn | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crossing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | to-infinitive | the safest place not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the safest place | a crossing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expect | present | drivers | people | there | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | present | the crossing | a turn | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient turn=Theme | |||
| 5 | walk | to-infinitive | the crossing not said here | a turn not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:0.
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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