British and American words, sentence 7
The path beside a road is a "pavement" in Britain and a "sidewalk" in America.
Who acts: path · What happens: be · To what, where: pavement, Britain
This is a sentence of the lesson «British and American words» of the language 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 (path), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 path | det |
| 2 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pavement | nsubj |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 path | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pavement | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pavement | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pavement | punct |
| 9 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pavement | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Britain | case |
| 12 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pavement | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sidewalk | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sidewalk | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sidewalk | punct |
| 16 | sidewalk | sidewalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pavement | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sidewalk | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 America | case |
| 19 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sidewalk | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pavement | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the path beside a road | a pavement and a sidewalk in America | Britain | tree rules |
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:language:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:7.
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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