Road and railway safety, sentence 4
Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded.
Who acts: Stepping · What happens: step out, be, blindfold
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 (Stepping), 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 | Stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 is | csubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Stepping | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 stepping | mark |
| 6 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 is | obl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stepping | compound:prt |
| 8 | blindfolded | blindfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stepping | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | gerund | there | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | Stepping | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | step out | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | blindfold | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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:4.
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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