Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 17
If you must pass parked cars, stop at their outside edge and look before going on.
Who acts: you · What happens: pass, park, stop, look, go on · To what, where: parked cars, outside edge
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 pass | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pass | aux |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stop | advcl |
| 5 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cars | amod |
| 6 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pass | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 edge | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 edge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 edge | amod |
| 12 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stop | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 stop | conj |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 look | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 going | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass a condition, not said to happen | must | you | parked cars | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | park | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stop | imperative | you not said here | cars's outside edge | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go on | gerund | you not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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