Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 1

Much of it is quietly clever: the bus stop sign knows when your bus is coming from its GPS, the crossing box has a little spinning cone for blind people, and a tap of a card pays your fare by radio.

Who acts: Much, stop sign, bus, crossing box, tap, card · What happens: be, know, come, have, pay, tap · To what, where: GPS, little spinning cone, fare

This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» 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 (Much, stop sign, bus, crossing box), 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	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clever	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Much	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 clever	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sign	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	compound
10	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	compound
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	parataxis
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 coming	advmod
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bus	nmod:poss
15	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coming	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 coming	aux
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 knows	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 GPS	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 GPS	nmod:poss
20	GPS	GPS	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coming	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 box	det
23	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 box	compound
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cone	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cone	amod
28	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cone	compound
29	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cone	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pays	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 pays	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tap	det
36	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pays	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 card	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 card	det
39	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tap	nmod
40	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	conj
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 fare	nmod:poss
42	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pays	obj
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 radio	case
44	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pays	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clever	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Much of machine			clever, quietly property	tree rules
2	know	present	the stop sign				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	present · progressive	your bus		machine's GPS		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from gps=Initial_Location
4	have	present	the crossing box	a little spinning cone		for blind people	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Patient
5	pay	present	a tap of a card	your fare		by radio	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fare=Asset
6	tap		a card				nom tap «event intransitive»: of=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:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:1.

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 ×3, 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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