Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 6
On a bus you hold on when it moves and sit down upstairs, and you never run in front of or behind a bus.
Who acts: you, centre · What happens: hold on, move, sit down, not run · To what, where: bus, front
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 (you, centre), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 bus | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bus | det |
| 3 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hold | compound:prt |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 moves | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 moves | nsubj |
| 9 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hold | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sit | cc |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 moves | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 sit | advmod |
| 13 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 11 sit | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 run | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 run | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 run | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 run | advmod |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hold | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bus | case |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 behind | cc |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 of | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bus | det |
| 25 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 front | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | present | you | a bus | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bus=Location | ||||
| 2 | move | present | centre | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit down | infinitive | centre not said here | down, upstairs property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not run | present | you | front of a bus | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
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:6.
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, R8-pos-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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