Bicycles and other wheels, sentence 19
A motorbike leans into bends to turn; motorbikes are fast and hard to see, so look twice before crossing.
Who acts: motorbike, leans · What happens: lean, turn, be, see, look, cross · To what, where: bends
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bicycles and other wheels» 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 (motorbike, leans), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 motorbike | det |
| 2 | motorbike | motorbike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leans | nsubj |
| 3 | leans | lean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fast | nsubj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 bends | case |
| 5 | bends | bend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leans | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 turn | mark |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 leans | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 motorbikes | punct |
| 9 | motorbikes | motorbike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leans | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fast | cop |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hard | cc |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fast | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hard | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 look | advmod |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fast | parataxis |
| 19 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 look | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 crossing | mark |
| 21 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 look | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leans | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | a motorbike | bends | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | a motorbike not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | leans and motorbikes | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | leans and motorbikes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | leans and motorbikes not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | look | infinitive | twice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | cross | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP 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:025-bicycles-and-other-wheels.lesson:19.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/19/