Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 19
Fluorescent colours glow brightly in daylight, but reflective material is what shines back in headlights at night.
Who acts: Fluorescent colours, reflective material · What happens: glow, be, shine back · To what, where: daylight, headlights
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (Fluorescent colours, reflective material), 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 | Fluorescent | fluorescent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 colours | amod |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glow | nsubj |
| 3 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 3 glow | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 daylight | case |
| 6 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glow | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 9 | reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 material | amod |
| 10 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 what | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 glow | conj |
| 13 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 shines | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 headlights | case |
| 16 | headlights | headlight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shines | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shines | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glow | 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 | glow | present | Fluorescent colours | daylight | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | reflective material | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shine back | present | headlights | night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in headlight=Location |
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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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): R5-strong ×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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