Bike helmets and roads, sentence 4
A car at 30 mph needs about 23 m to stop, and a lorry driver sitting high up may not see a child next to the cab at all, so the rider who stays seen and stays back is the one who gets home.
Who acts: car, lorry driver, rider, one · What happens: need, stop, sit up, not see, stay, see · To what, where: 23 m, child, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets and roads» of the medicine 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 (car, lorry driver, rider, one), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 mph | case |
| 4 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 mph | nummod |
| 5 | mph | mph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 car | nmod |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 23 | advmod |
| 8 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 m | nummod |
| 9 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 needs | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stop | mark |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 needs | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 driver | det |
| 15 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driver | compound |
| 16 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 driver | acl |
| 18 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 sitting | advmod |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 sitting | advmod |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 needs | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | next | next | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 28 cab | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 cab | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cab | det |
| 28 | cab | cab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 all | fixed |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 see | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rider | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 one | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rider | det |
| 34 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 one | nsubj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 stays | nsubj |
| 36 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 rider | acl:relcl |
| 37 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 stays | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stays | cc |
| 39 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 stays | conj |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 stays | advmod |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 one | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 one | det |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | parataxis |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 gets | nsubj |
| 45 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 one | acl:relcl |
| 46 | home | home | ADV | _ | 45 gets | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 needs | 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 | need | present | a car at 30 mph | 23 m | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot m=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | a car at 30 mph not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sit up | gerund | a lorry driver not said here | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not see | may | a lorry driver | a child | next the cab; all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | stay | present | the rider | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | participle | the rider not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | stay back | present | the rider not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is a | present | the rider | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | get | present | the one | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:medicine:072-bike-helmets-and-roads.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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