Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 11
In the USA and Canada, traffic must stop for a school bus with flashing red lights and its stop arm out.
Who acts: traffic · What happens: stop · To what, where: USA
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 (traffic), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 USA | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 USA | det |
| 3 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Canada | cc |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 USA | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 USA | punct |
| 7 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stop | aux |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bus | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bus | det |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bus | compound |
| 13 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 lights | case |
| 15 | flashing | flash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lights | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lights | amod |
| 17 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bus | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 arm | cc |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arm | compound |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lights | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 arm | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | must | traffic | the USA and Canada | for a school bus with flashing red lights and traffic's stop arm | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in usa=Location |
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:11.
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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