Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 13

Indicators flash to show which way a car will turn, and reversing lights are white so people behind know the car is about to move back.

Who acts: Indicators, car, reversing lights, people · What happens: flash, show, turn, reverse, be, know · To what, where: way, car · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» of the technology 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 (Indicators, car, reversing lights, people), 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	Indicators	indicator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flash	nsubj
2	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flash	advcl
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 show	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 white	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 white	cc
13	reversing	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 lights	amod
14	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 white	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 white	cop
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flash	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	24 about	advmod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 about	nsubj
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 know	mark
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 people	acl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 car	det
22	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 know	obj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 about	cop
24	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 white	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 move	mark
26	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 about	xcomp
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 move	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flash	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flash	present	Indicators			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	Indicators not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	future	a car	which way		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme way=Result
4	reverse	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	reversing lights		white property	tree rules
6	know	infinitive	people not said here	the car		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
7	is	present	people		about property	tree rules
8	move back	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:13.

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): R6-punct-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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