Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 19
Many walkers are hit by cars turning a corner across the crossing.
Who acts: cars · What happens: hit, turn · To what, where: Many walkers, corner, crossing
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 (cars), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 walkers | amod |
| 2 | walkers | walker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hit | aux:pass |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 cars | case |
| 6 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hit | obl:agent |
| 7 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cars | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turning | obj |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 crossing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crossing | det |
| 12 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turning | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present · passive | cars | Many walkers | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | cars not said here | a corner | the crossing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent corner=Theme across crossing=Trajectory |
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:19.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/19/