Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 16
Reflective material sends a car's headlight beam back towards the driver.
Who acts: Reflective material · What happens: send, beam · To what, where: headlight beam, car
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 (Reflective material), 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 | Reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 material | amod |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beam | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 car | case |
| 7 | headlight | headlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beam | compound |
| 8 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 sends | advmod |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 driver | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 driver | det |
| 12 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | Reflective material | a car's headlight beam | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beam | a car | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=patient |
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:16.
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): R5-strong ×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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