Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 16
Tapping a card or phone on a bus reader pays the fare by a short radio signal; the card has a tiny antenna coil inside.
Who acts: Tapping, card · What happens: tap, pay, have · To what, where: card, fare, tiny antenna coil
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 (Tapping, card), 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 | Tapping | tap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 pays | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 card | det |
| 3 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tapping | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 phone | cc |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 card | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 reader | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reader | det |
| 8 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reader | compound |
| 9 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tapping | obl |
| 10 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fare | det |
| 12 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pays | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 signal | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 signal | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 signal | amod |
| 16 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 signal | compound |
| 17 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pays | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 card | det |
| 20 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pays | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 coil | det |
| 23 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 coil | amod |
| 24 | antenna | antenna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coil | compound |
| 25 | coil | coil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 26 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 21 has | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pays | 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 | tap | gerund | a card or phone | on a bus reader | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent card=Instrument on reader=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | Tapping | the fare | by a short radio signal | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fare=Asset | |||
| 3 | have | present | the card | a tiny antenna coil | inside property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Patient |
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:16.
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. 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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