Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 0

A lockdown drill is like a fire drill: everyone practises staying quiet behind a locked door so they would know what to do, even though real emergencies are very rare and most children never have one.

Who acts: lockdown drill, everyone, they, real emergencies · What happens: be, practise, stay, lock, know, do · To what, where: locked door, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» of the politics 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 (lockdown drill, everyone, they, real emergencies), 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 drill	det
2	lockdown	lockdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drill	compound
3	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drill	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drill	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 drill	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drill	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drill	compound
8	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 practises	punct
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 practises	nsubj
11	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drill	parataxis
12	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 practises	xcomp
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 staying	xcomp
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 door	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 door	det
16	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 door	amod
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staying	obl
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 know	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 staying	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 do	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rare	punct
26	even	even	ADV	_	32 rare	advmod
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 rare	mark
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 emergencies	amod
29	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rare	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 rare	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 rare	advmod
32	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 have	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 children	cc
34	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 children	amod
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rare	conj
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 have	advmod
37	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 staying	conj
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 have	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drill	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a lockdown drill			like a fire drill	tree rules
2	practise	present	everyone				tree rules
3	stay	gerund	everyone not said here		a locked door	quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind door=Location
4	lock	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	know	would	they				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	is	present	real emergencies			rare property	tree rules
8	not have	present	everyone not said here	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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:politics:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:0.

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 ×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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