Speed: fast and slow, sentence 14
Before braking even starts, a driver needs a moment to see, think and press the pedal, and the car carries on at full speed meanwhile; a phone makes that moment longer.
Who acts: driver, car, phone · What happens: brake, start, need, see, think, press · To what, where: pedal, full speed
This is a sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» 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 (driver, car, phone), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 starts | mark |
| 2 | braking | brake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 starts | advmod |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 needs | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 driver | det |
| 7 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needs | nsubj |
| 8 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needs | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 needs | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 press | cc |
| 16 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 think | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pedal | det |
| 18 | pedal | pedal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 press | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carries | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 carries | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 car | det |
| 22 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carries | nsubj |
| 23 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 needs | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 carries | compound:prt |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 speed | case |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 speed | amod |
| 27 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carries | obl |
| 28 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 23 carries | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 makes | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 phone | det |
| 31 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 makes | nsubj |
| 32 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 needs | conj |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 moment | det |
| 34 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 makes | obj |
| 35 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 makes | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | brake | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | start | present | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | need | present | a driver | moment | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | a driver not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | infinitive | a driver not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | press | infinitive | a driver not said here | the pedal | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme | ||||
| 7 | carry on | present | the car | full speed | meanwhile property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | make | present | a phone | moment | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:036-speed-fast-and-slow.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): R3-conj-first ×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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