Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 15
Drivers have blind spots behind and to the sides, and a small child can be hidden behind a car; lorries have huge blind spots, and if you cannot see the driver's mirrors, the driver cannot see you.
Who acts: Drivers, lorries, you, driver · What happens: have, hide, not see · To what, where: blind spots, small child, car, huge blind spots, mirrors, you
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 (Drivers, lorries, you, driver), 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 | Drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spots | amod |
| 4 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 spots | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sides | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spots | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hidden | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hidden | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 child | amod |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hidden | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hidden | aux:pass |
| 17 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | conj |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 car | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 car | det |
| 20 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hidden | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 22 | lorries | lorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 24 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spots | amod |
| 25 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spots | amod |
| 26 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 see | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 see | cc |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 see | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 see | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 see | advmod |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 see | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 driver | det |
| 35 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mirrors | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 driver | case |
| 37 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 see | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 see | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 driver | det |
| 40 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 see | nsubj |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 see | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 see | advmod |
| 43 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 see | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Drivers | blind spots and the sides | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hide | can · passive | a small child | a car | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind car=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present | lorries | huge blind spots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not see a condition, not said to happen | can | you | the driver's mirrors | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirror=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not see | can | the driver | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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:15.
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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