Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones, sentence 16

Nobody goes near a helicopter until the crew says so, because its blades spin too fast to see; air ambulances can land in fields and on hospital roofs.

Who acts: Nobody, crew, blades, air ambulances · What happens: go, say, spin, see, land · To what, where: helicopter, fields · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» 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 (Nobody, crew, blades, air ambulances), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 helicopter	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 helicopter	det
5	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 says	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crew	det
8	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fast	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 spin	mark
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 blades	nmod:poss
14	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spin	nsubj
15	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	advcl
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
17	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spin	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fast	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 land	punct
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ambulances	compound
22	ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 land	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 land	aux
24	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 goes	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 fields	case
26	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 land	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 roofs	cc
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 roofs	case
29	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roofs	compound
30	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fields	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go	present	Nobody	a helicopter	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near helicopter=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	the crew		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	spin	present	helicopter's blades		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	helicopter's blades not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	land	can	air ambulances	fields and hospital roofs	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in field=Destination

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:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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): R1-cc-next ×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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