Road and railway safety, sentence 3

You are shorter than its bonnet, so a driver coming along the road cannot see you behind it, and you cannot see the driver either.

Who acts: You, driver · What happens: be, come, not see · To what, where: road, you, van, driver

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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 shorter	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shorter	cop
3	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 bonnet	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bonnet	nmod:poss
6	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shorter	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	17 see	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 driver	det
10	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	nsubj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 driver	acl
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 road	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shorter	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 see	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 driver	det
28	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
29	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 see	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shorter	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	You			than van's bonnet; short property	tree rules
2	come	gerund	a driver not said here		the road		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location
3	not see	can	a driver	you	van		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	not see	can	you	the driver		either property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer driver=Stimulus

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:3.

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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