Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 21
Drivers see someone in dark clothes at night much later than someone wearing bright or reflective things.
Who acts: Drivers · What happens: see, wear · To what, where: someone, dark clothes, bright things
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 (Drivers), 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 | Drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 see | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 someone | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 later | advmod |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 see | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 see | obl |
| 13 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 someone | acl |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 reflective | cc |
| 16 | reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bright | conj |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wearing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Drivers | someone | dark clothes | night | than someone; late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |
| 2 | wear | gerund | bright things | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Source |
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:21.
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, R8-pos-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.
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