Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 2
On a train platform you stand behind the yellow or white line, let people off before you get on, and mind the gap between the train and the platform.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, let off, get on, mind · To what, where: train platform, people, gap
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 platform | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 platform | det |
| 3 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 platform | compound |
| 4 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 line | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 line | det |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 line | amod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 white | cc |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 yellow | conj |
| 12 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | conj |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 let | compound:prt |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mind | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mind | cc |
| 23 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gap | det |
| 25 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mind | obj |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 train | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 train | det |
| 28 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gap | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 platform | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 platform | det |
| 31 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 train | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | you | a train platform | behind the yellow line | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on platform=Location | |||
| 2 | let off | infinitive | you not said here | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get on | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | mind | infinitive | you not said here | the gap | between the train and the platform | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=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:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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