Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 15

Crossing between parked cars is dangerous because drivers cannot see you and you cannot see them.

Who acts: Crossing, drivers, you · What happens: cross, park, be, not see · To what, where: you, drivers

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 (Crossing, drivers, 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	Crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dangerous	csubj
2	between	between	ADP	_	4 cars	case
3	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crossing	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dangerous	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund			between parked cars	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	park	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Crossing		dangerous property	tree rules
4	not see	can	drivers	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	not see	can	you	drivers = driver		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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:15.

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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