Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 9

Many countries' laws say a driver who hits a parked car must leave their name; honest cyclists do the same.

Who acts: laws, driver, honest cyclists, countries · What happens: say, hit, park, leave, do, name · To what, where: parked car, name, same · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (laws, driver, honest cyclists, countries), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 countries	amod
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laws	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 countries	case
4	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 driver	det
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hits	nsubj
9	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 driver	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 car	det
11	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 car	amod
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hits	obj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 leave	aux
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 name	nmod:poss
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
18	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cyclists	amod
19	cyclists	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 same	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 do	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Many countries's laws		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hit	present	a driver	a parked car	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme
3	park	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	leave	must	a driver	countries's name	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
5	do	present	honest cyclists	the same	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality
6	name		countries = country		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:9.

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): no change. 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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