Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 18
Where there is no pavement, you walk facing the oncoming traffic, so you can see it coming.
Who acts: pavement, you · What happens: be, walk, face, see, come · To what, where: oncoming traffic
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 (pavement, you), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 walk | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 pavement | det |
| 5 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 walk | nsubj |
| 8 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | parataxis |
| 9 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 walk | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 traffic | det |
| 11 | oncoming | oncom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 traffic | amod |
| 12 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 facing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 see | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no pavement | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | face | gerund | you not said here | the oncoming traffic | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme traffic=Destination | ||||
| 4 | see | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | gerund | pavement | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:18.
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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