Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 11
Even with the walk signal you look both ways, because a car may still be moving or turning.
Who acts: you, car · What happens: look, move, turn · To what, where: ways
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 (you, car), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 signal | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 signal | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 signal | det |
| 4 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 signal | compound |
| 5 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 ways | det |
| 9 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moving | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 moving | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 car | det |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moving | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 moving | aux |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 moving | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 moving | aux |
| 17 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 look | advcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 turning | cc |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 moving | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | you | both ways | with the walk signal | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | move | may · progressive | a car | still | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | a car not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:11.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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