Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 4
In daylight, bright fluorescent colours help you stand out; at night it is reflective material and lights that work.
Who acts: bright fluorescent colours, you, daylight, lights · What happens: help, stand out, be, work · To what, where: you, daylight, reflective material
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 (bright fluorescent colours, you, daylight, lights), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 daylight | case |
| 2 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 daylight | punct |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colours | amod |
| 5 | fluorescent | fluorescent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colours | amod |
| 6 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 help | nsubj |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 stand | compound:prt |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 material | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 material | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 material | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 material | cop |
| 16 | reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 material | amod |
| 17 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lights | cc |
| 19 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 material | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 work | nsubj |
| 21 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lights | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | bright fluorescent colours | you | daylight | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand out | infinitive | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | daylight | reflective material and lights | night | tree rules | |||
| 4 | work | present | lights | vn employment-95.3 «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:4.
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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