Electric cars and charging, sentence 6
Electric cars are very quiet, so new ones must make a gentle sound at low speed so people can hear them coming.
Who acts: Electric cars, new ones, people, wheels · What happens: be, make, hear, come · To what, where: gentle sound, low speed, wheels
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 (Electric cars, new ones, people, wheels), 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 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cars | amod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 quiet | advmod |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 make | advmod |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quiet | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sound | amod |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 speed | case |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 speed | amod |
| 17 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 hear | advmod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hear | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hear | aux |
| 21 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hear | obj |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 hear | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Electric cars | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | must | new ones | a gentle sound | low speed | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | |||
| 3 | hear | can | people | wheels = wheel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | wheels = wheel not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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