Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 14
Child locks are small switches on the edge of the back doors that stop them opening from inside, and passengers get out on the pavement side and check for bikes; opening a door into a cyclist is called dooring.
Who acts: Child locks, back doors, passengers, opening · What happens: be, stop, open, get out, check, call · To what, where: small switches, edge, locks, pavement side, door, cyclist · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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 (Child locks, back doors, passengers, opening), 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 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 locks | compound |
| 2 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 switches | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 switches | cop |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 switches | amod |
| 5 | switches | switch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 switches | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 doors | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doors | det |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doors | compound |
| 12 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 edge | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 doors | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stop | obj |
| 16 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stop | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 inside | case |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 16 opening | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 21 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 get | nsubj |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 26 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 side | compound |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 check | cc |
| 29 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 bikes | case |
| 31 | bikes | bike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 check | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 called | punct |
| 33 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 called | csubj:pass |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 door | det |
| 35 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 opening | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 cyclist | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 cyclist | det |
| 38 | cyclist | cyclist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 opening | obl |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 called | aux:pass |
| 40 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 switches | parataxis |
| 41 | dooring | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 called | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 switches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Child locks | small switches | the edge of the back doors | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stop | present | the back doors | locks = lock | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | the back doors not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get out | present | passengers | the pavement side | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | check | present | passengers not said here | for bikes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for bike=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | open | gerund | a door | a cyclist | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient into cyclist=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | call speech: assert | present · passive | opening | dooring | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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:018-car-safety.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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