Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 15
Bus lanes are painted lanes kept for buses so they stay on time, and cameras check that cars don't use them; a driver caught on camera in a bus lane can be fined.
Who acts: lanes, cameras, cars · What happens: paint, keep, stay, check, not use, catch · To what, where: Bus lanes, lanes, cameras, driver, camera
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 (lanes, cameras, cars), 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 | Bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lanes | compound |
| 2 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | aux:pass |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 painted | obj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lanes | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 buses | case |
| 8 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | obl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 check | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 check | cc |
| 16 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 check | nsubj |
| 17 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 use | mark |
| 19 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 use | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 use | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 use | advmod |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 check | ccomp |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 use | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 fined | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 driver | det |
| 26 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fined | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 driver | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 camera | case |
| 29 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 caught | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 lane | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lane | det |
| 32 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lane | compound |
| 33 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 caught | obl |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 fined | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 fined | aux:pass |
| 36 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 painted | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present · passive | Bus lanes | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient lane=Result | |||||
| 2 | keep | participle | lanes not said here | for buses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | lanes = lane | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | check | present | cameras | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not use | present · do-support | cars | cameras = camera | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 6 | catch | participle | a driver not said here | camera | in a bus lane | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | fine | can · passive | a driver | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:15.
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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