Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 14

A coach is a big bus with luggage space underneath and seat belts, which passengers wear; coach drivers are limited by law in how long they can drive without a break.

Who acts: coach, passengers, law · What happens: be, wear, limit, drive · To what, where: big bus, seat belts, coach drivers

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 (coach, passengers, law), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bus	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bus	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bus	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bus	amod
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 space	case
8	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 space	compound
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bus	nmod
10	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	9 space	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 belts	cc
12	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 belts	compound
13	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 space	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wear	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wear	obj
16	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wear	nsubj
17	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 belts	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 bus	punct
19	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drivers	compound
20	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 limited	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 limited	aux:pass
22	limited	limit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bus	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 law	case
24	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 limited	obl
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	30 drive	mark
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 drive	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 drive	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 drive	aux
30	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 limited	advcl
31	without	without	ADP	_	33 break	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 break	det
33	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drive	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bus	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a coach	a big bus	with luggage space and seat belts	tree rules
2	wear	present	passengers	seat belts		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source
3	limit	present · passive	law	coach drivers		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Patient
4	drive	can	passengers = passenger		without a break; long property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:14.

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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