Riding a bike or a scooter safely, sentence 4
Drivers often do not see children, so try to catch the driver's eye; a boy in Austin waits at a driveway until the reversing car has stopped and the driver has seen him.
Who acts: Drivers, boy, driver · What happens: not see, try, catch, wait, reverse, stop · To what, where: children, eye, driveway, reversing car, boy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» 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, boy, driver), 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 | 5 see | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 try | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 try | advmod |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 try | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 driver | det |
| 13 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eye | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 driver | case |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 catch | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 boy | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waits | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Austin | case |
| 20 | Austin | Austin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 boy | nmod |
| 21 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 driveway | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 driveway | det |
| 24 | driveway | driveway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waits | obl |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 stopped | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 car | det |
| 27 | reversing | reverse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 car | amod |
| 28 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 stopped | aux |
| 30 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 waits | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 seen | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 driver | det |
| 33 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 stopped | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | 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 | not see | present · do-support | Drivers | children | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the driver's eye | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | present | a boy in Austin | a driveway | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at driveway=Location | ||||
| 5 | reverse | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | stop | present · perfect · passive | the reversing car | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | see | present · perfect | the driver | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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:005-bikes-and-scooters.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): 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.
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