Road and railway safety, sentence 5

Cars that reverse are even harder: drivers looking back over a boot or out of a driveway cannot see low down, which is why car parks and driveways are not places to play.

Who acts: Cars, drivers, car parks · What happens: reverse, be, look back, not see, not be, play · To what, where: places

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 (Cars, drivers, car parks), 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	cars	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harder	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 reverse	nsubj
3	reverse	reverse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cars	acl:relcl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 harder	cop
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 drivers	punct
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 see	nsubj
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 drivers	acl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 looking	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 boot	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boot	det
13	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 driveway	cc
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 driveway	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 driveway	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 driveway	det
18	driveway	driveway	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boot	conj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 harder	parataxis
22	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 down	advmod
23	down	down	ADV	_	21 see	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 why	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 why	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 why	cop
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 see	parataxis
28	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 parks	compound
29	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 places	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 driveways	cc
31	driveways	driveway	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 parks	conj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 places	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 places	advmod
34	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 why	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 play	mark
36	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 places	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 harder	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reverse	present	Cars			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	Cars		hard property	tree rules
3	look back	gerund	drivers not said here		over a boot or a driveway	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over boot=Theme
4	not see	can	drivers		down property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present			why property	tree rules
6	not is a	present	car parks and driveways	places		tree rules
7	play	to-infinitive				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:5.

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): 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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