Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 10
Before you cross in front of a school bus, you look at the driver and wait for a wave or nod that it is safe.
Who acts: you, front · What happens: cross, look, wait, be · To what, where: front, nod
This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» 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, front), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 cross | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cross | nsubj |
| 3 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bus | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bus | det |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bus | compound |
| 9 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 front | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 driver | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 driver | det |
| 15 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wait | cc |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 wave | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wave | det |
| 20 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wait | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 nod | cc |
| 22 | nod | nod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wave | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 safe | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 safe | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 safe | cop |
| 26 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nod | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | present | you | front of a school bus | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | at the driver | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at driver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | present | you not said here | for a wave or nod | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | front | nod not said here | safe property | tree rules |
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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:10.
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): R8-pos-agree ×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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