Strangers and tricky people, sentence 14
Stay more than an arm's length away from someone who calls you over to their car.
Who acts: you · What happens: stay, call over · To what, where: you, car
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» 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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 length | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 arm | det |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 length | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 arm | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stay | obl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Stay | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 away | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 calls | nsubj |
| 12 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 someone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 calls | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 calls | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 car | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 car | nmod:poss |
| 17 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calls | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | than a arm's length; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call over speech: assert | present | you | parent's car | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to car=Recipient |
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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:14.
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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