Road and railway safety, sentence 17

At night, bright or reflective clothes and a light help drivers see you far earlier than dark clothes do; that is why school bags have reflective strips.

Who acts: bright clothes, drivers, that, school bags · What happens: help, see, be, have · To what, where: drivers, you, reflective strips

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 (bright clothes, drivers, that, school bags), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clothes	punct
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothes	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 reflective	cc
6	reflective	reflective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bright	conj
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 help	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 light	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 light	det
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clothes	conj
11	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 help	obj
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 earlier	advmod
16	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 see	advmod
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clothes	amod
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 earlier	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 is	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 is	nsubj
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 help	parataxis
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 have	advmod
25	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bags	compound
26	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 is	advcl
28	reflective	reflective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 strips	amod
29	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	bright clothes and a light	drivers	night		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent driver=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	see	infinitive	drivers not said here	you		early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	be	present	that				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	school bags	reflective strips			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient

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:17.

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, R6-punct-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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