Light and shadows, sentence 15
A reflective strip bounces car headlights straight back to the driver, so a cyclist wearing one is seen from much further away.
Who acts: reflective strip, cyclist · What happens: bounce, wear, see · To what, where: car headlights, one, cyclist
This is a sentence of the lesson «Light and shadows» of the physics 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 (reflective strip, cyclist), 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 | 3 strip | det |
| 2 | reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strip | amod |
| 3 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bounces | nsubj |
| 4 | bounces | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 headlights | compound |
| 6 | headlights | headlight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bounces | obj |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 back | advmod |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bounces | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 driver | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 driver | det |
| 11 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bounces | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 seen | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cyclist | det |
| 15 | cyclist | cyclist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 cyclist | acl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 wearing | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 bounces | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 away | case |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 further | advmod |
| 22 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 seen | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bounces | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce | present | a reflective strip | car headlights | to the driver result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent headlight=Theme to driver=Result | |||
| 2 | wear | gerund | a cyclist not said here | one | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source | ||||
| 3 | see | present · passive | a cyclist | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:physics:020-light-and-shadows.lesson:15.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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