Road and railway safety, sentence 9
Children can find it hard to judge how fast a car is coming, which is one more reason to cross at a crossing.
Who acts: Children, driver, car · What happens: find, judge, come, be, cross · To what, where: driver, one more reason, crossing
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 (Children, driver, car), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | expl |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 judge | mark |
| 7 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 coming | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 car | det |
| 11 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 coming | aux |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 judge | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reason | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 reason | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 reason | cop |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 reason | nummod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 reason | amod |
| 19 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cross | mark |
| 21 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 reason | acl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 crossing | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 crossing | det |
| 24 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cross | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | can | Children | driver | hard property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | judge | to-infinitive | driver not said here | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | present · progressive | a car | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | one more reason | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cross | to-infinitive | a car not said here | a crossing | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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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