Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 19
A bike ridden at night needs a white light at the front and a red light at the back.
Who acts: bike · What happens: ride, need · To what, where: bike, white light, front
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 (bike), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bike | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ridden | obl |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 light | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 light | amod |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 front | det |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 light | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 light | amod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 back | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 back | det |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | participle | a bike not said here | night | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a bike | a white light and a red light at the back | the front | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=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:19.
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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