Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 17
Fluorescent colours show up best in daylight and do little at night.
Who acts: Fluorescent colours · What happens: show up, do · To what, where: daylight
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 (Fluorescent colours), 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 | Fluorescent | fluorescent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 colours | amod |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 show | compound:prt |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | _ | 3 show | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 daylight | case |
| 7 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | conj |
| 10 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show up | present | Fluorescent colours | daylight | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location | |||
| 2 | do | present | Fluorescent colours not said here | night | little property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:17.
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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