Road and railway safety, sentence 18
Cars back out of driveways where drivers cannot see low down; many accidents to very young children happen on home driveways, so driveways are not for playing.
Who acts: drivers, many accidents, driveways · What happens: not see, happen, not play · To what, where: home driveways
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 (drivers, many accidents, driveways), 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 | Cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 driveways | nsubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 driveways | advmod |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 driveways | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 driveways | case |
| 5 | driveways | driveway | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 see | advmod |
| 7 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 driveways | acl:relcl |
| 11 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 down | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 accidents | punct |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 accidents | amod |
| 15 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 happen | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 young | advmod |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 accidents | nmod |
| 20 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 driveways | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 driveways | case |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 driveways | compound |
| 23 | driveways | driveway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 happen | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 playing | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 playing | advmod |
| 26 | driveways | driveway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 playing | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 playing | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 playing | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 playing | case |
| 30 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 driveways | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 driveways | 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 | not see | can | drivers | down property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | many accidents to young children | home driveways | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on driveway=Location | ||||
| 3 | not play | present · progressive | driveways | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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): no change. 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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