Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 13

Under every street run water pipes, sewers, gas pipes and electricity and internet cables; workers spray coloured paint to mark them, and diggers check for cables before digging.

Who acts: workers, diggers · What happens: run, spray, colour, mark, check, dig · To what, where: street, water pipes, workers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 (workers, diggers), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 street	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 street	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pipes	compound
6	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spray	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sewers	punct
8	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pipes	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pipes	punct
10	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pipes	compound
11	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pipes	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 electricity	cc
13	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pipes	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cables	cc
15	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cables	compound
16	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 electricity	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 spray	punct
18	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spray	nsubj
19	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	conj
20	coloured	colour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 paint	amod
21	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spray	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 mark	mark
23	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 spray	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mark	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 check	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 check	cc
27	diggers	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 check	nsubj
28	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 spray	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 cables	case
30	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 check	obl
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 digging	mark
32	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 check	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 spray	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	present			every street		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under street=Trajectory
2	spray	present	workers	water pipes and sewers and gas pipes and electricity and internet cables			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paint=Theme
3	colour	participle					tree rules
4	mark	to-infinitive	workers not said here	workers = worker			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
5	check	present	diggers			for cables	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for cable=Attribute
6	dig	gerund	diggers not said here				vn create-26.4-1-1 «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:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:13.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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