Road and railway safety, sentence 11

Small children are lower than a car bonnet, so drivers cannot see them between parked cars; never step out between parked cars, find a clear place to cross.

Who acts: Small children, drivers · What happens: be, not see, park, not step out, find, cross · To what, where: children, parked cars, clear place

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 (Small children, drivers), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lower	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lower	cop
4	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 bonnet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bonnet	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bonnet	compound
8	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lower	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
11	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lower	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	between	between	ADP	_	18 cars	case
17	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 cars	amod
18	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 step	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 step	advmod
21	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 step	compound:prt
23	between	between	ADP	_	25 cars	case
24	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 cars	amod
25	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 step	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 find	punct
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 place	det
29	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 place	amod
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 cross	mark
32	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 place	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lower	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small children			than a car bonnet; low property	tree rules
2	not see	can	drivers	children = child		between parked cars	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	park	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not step out	infinitive	drivers not said here		parked cars		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory
5	park	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	find	infinitive	drivers not said here	a clear place			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
7	cross	to-infinitive	drivers not said here	a clear place not said here			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:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:11.

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.

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