Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 12
A zebra crossing has black and white stripes on the road.
Who acts: zebra crossing · What happens: have · To what, where: black stripes, road
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 (zebra 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crossing | det |
| 2 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossing | compound |
| 3 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stripes | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 white | cc |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 black | conj |
| 8 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stripes | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | 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 | have | present | a zebra crossing | black stripes | the road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient |
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:12.
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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