Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 16
Parking sensors send out sound pulses and time the echo, beeping faster as the car gets closer to something, a bit like a bat, but they do not see everything.
Who acts: Parking sensors, car, sensors · What happens: send out, time, beep, get, not see · To what, where: sound pulses, echo, everything
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 (Parking sensors, car, sensors), 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 | Parking | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sensors | compound |
| 2 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 send | nsubj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 send | compound:prt |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulses | compound |
| 6 | pulses | pulse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 send | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 time | cc |
| 8 | time | time | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 echo | det |
| 10 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beeping | punct |
| 12 | beeping | beep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 send | advcl |
| 13 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 beeping | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 gets | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 car | det |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gets | nsubj |
| 17 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 beeping | advcl |
| 18 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 gets | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 something | case |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 gets | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bit | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bit | det |
| 23 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 something | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 bat | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bat | det |
| 26 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bit | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 see | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 see | advmod |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | conj |
| 33 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | present | Parking sensors | sound pulses | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | time | infinitive | Parking sensors not said here | the echo | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beep | gerund | Parking sensors not said here | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | the car | to something result; close property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to something=Result | ||||
| 5 | not see | present · do-support | sensors = sensor | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=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:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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