Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 8
Building sites are dangerous even when they look empty, so children never go in.
Who acts: Building sites, sites, children · What happens: be, look, not go in
This is a sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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 (Building sites, sites, children), 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 | Building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sites | compound |
| 2 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | cop |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 when | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | advcl |
| 9 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 look | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 go | advmod |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangerous | 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 | is | present | Building sites | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | sites = site | empty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not go in | present | children | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:8.
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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