Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 16
A driver reversing out of a driveway or a parking space may not see a child behind the car.
Who acts: driver · What happens: reverse out, not see · To what, where: driveway, child, car
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 (driver), 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 | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | nsubj |
| 3 | reversing | reverse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 driver | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 driveway | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 driveway | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 driveway | det |
| 7 | driveway | driveway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reversing | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 space | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 space | det |
| 10 | parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 space | compound |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driveway | conj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 car | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 car | det |
| 19 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 child | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reverse out | gerund | a driver not said here | a driveway or a parking space | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent driveway=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | may | a driver | a child | the car | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=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:16.
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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