Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 18

Lorries need a very long way to stop and swing out wide when they turn, so you never cycle on the inside of a turning lorry.

Who acts: Lorries, you · What happens: need, stop, swing out, turn, not cycle · To what, where: long way, inside

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 (Lorries, you), 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	Lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swing	cc
10	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stop	conj
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 swing	advmod
12	wide	wide	ADV	_	10 swing	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 turn	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turn	nsubj
15	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 swing	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cycle	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 cycle	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 cycle	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 cycle	advmod
20	cycle	cycle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 inside	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 inside	det
23	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cycle	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 lorry	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lorry	det
26	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lorry	compound
27	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 inside	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	Lorries	a long way			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	Lorries not said here	a long way not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	swing out	infinitive	Lorries not said here			out, wide property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	turn	present	lorries = lorry				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	not cycle	present	you		the inside of a turning lorry		vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme 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:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:18.

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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