Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 5
Car crashes do happen, but most journeys end safely; seat belts, child seats and careful driving make them much safer.
Who acts: Car crashes, most journeys, seat belts · What happens: happen, end, make · To what, where: journeys
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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 crashes, most journeys, seat belts), 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 | Car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crashes | compound |
| 2 | crashes | crash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 end | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 end | cc |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 journeys | amod |
| 8 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 end | nsubj |
| 9 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | conj |
| 10 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 9 end | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 belts | punct |
| 12 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belts | compound |
| 13 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 make | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seats | punct |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seats | compound |
| 16 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 belts | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 driving | cc |
| 18 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 driving | amod |
| 19 | driving | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belts | conj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 end | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 safer | advmod |
| 23 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 make | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | 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 | happen | present · do-support | Car crashes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | end | present | most journeys | safely property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | present | seat belts and child seats and careful driving | journeys = journey | safe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:5.
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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