Electric cars and charging, sentence 3
Picture standing at the kerb as one glides past with only a soft hum: that quietness is lovely for the street, and it is exactly why you look as well as listen before crossing.
Who acts: you, one, quietness · What happens: picture, stand, glide, be, look, listen · To what, where: kerb, crossing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» 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 (you, one, quietness), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 kerb | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kerb | det |
| 5 | kerb | kerb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 standing | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 glides | mark |
| 7 | one | one | PRON | _ | 8 glides | nsubj |
| 8 | glides | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 standing | advcl |
| 9 | past | past | ADV | _ | 8 glides | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hum | case |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 hum | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hum | det |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hum | amod |
| 14 | hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glides | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 quietness | det |
| 17 | quietness | quietness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lovely | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lovely | cop |
| 19 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 street | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 street | det |
| 22 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lovely | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 why | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 why | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 why | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 why | cop |
| 27 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 28 why | advmod |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 lovely | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 look | nsubj |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 why | advcl:relcl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 34 listen | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 listen | advmod |
| 34 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 look | conj |
| 35 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 crossing | mark |
| 36 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 listen | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | you not said here | the kerb | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at kerb=Location | ||||
| 3 | glide | present | one | with a soft hum; past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that quietness | for the street; lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | quietness | exactly, why property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | look | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | crossing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:technology:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:3.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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