Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 7
A crossing is safer than crossing anywhere else, because drivers expect people there.
Who acts: crossing, drivers · What happens: be, cross, expect · To what, where: people
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), 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 crossing | det |
| 2 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | cop |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 crossing | mark |
| 6 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 safer | advcl |
| 7 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 crossing | advmod |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 anywhere | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 expect | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 expect | mark |
| 11 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 expect | nsubj |
| 12 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | advcl |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 expect | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 people | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 safer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a crossing | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross | gerund | a crossing not said here | anywhere property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | expect | present | drivers | people | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:7.
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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