Road and railway safety, sentence 0
A car, a bus or a train is a heavy machine that needs time and space to stop, and its driver can only stop for what they can see.
Who acts: car, heavy machine, driver · What happens: be, need, stop, see · To what, where: heavy machine
This is a sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» 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 (car, heavy machine, driver), 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 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 machine | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bus | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bus | det |
| 5 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 car | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 train | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 train | det |
| 8 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bus | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 machine | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 machine | det |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 machine | amod |
| 12 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 needs | nsubj |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 machine | acl:relcl |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 space | cc |
| 17 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stop | mark |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stop | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stop | cc |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 driver | nmod:poss |
| 23 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stop | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stop | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 stop | advmod |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 needs | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 what | case |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 stop | obl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 machine | 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 | is a | present | a car and a bus or a train | a heavy machine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a heavy machine | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | a heavy machine not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stop | can | space's driver | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | see | can | car | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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