Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 2
The coloured paint marks that workers spray on the pavement before roadworks are a map of that hidden city, showing where pipes and cables run, so the diggers do not hit them.
Who acts: workers, coloured paint marks, map, pipes, diggers · What happens: colour, spray, be, show, run, not hit · To what, where: coloured paint marks, pavement, map, pipes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, coloured paint marks, map, pipes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 marks | det |
| 2 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 marks | amod |
| 3 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marks | compound |
| 4 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 map | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 spray | obj |
| 6 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spray | nsubj |
| 7 | spray | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 marks | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 pavement | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pavement | det |
| 10 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spray | obl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 roadworks | case |
| 12 | roadworks | roadwork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spray | obl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 map | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 map | det |
| 15 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 city | det |
| 18 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 map | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 showing | punct |
| 21 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 map | acl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 run | advmod |
| 23 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 run | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cables | cc |
| 25 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pipes | conj |
| 26 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 showing | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hit | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 hit | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 diggers | det |
| 30 | diggers | digger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hit | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 hit | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 hit | advmod |
| 33 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 map | parataxis |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hit | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 map | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | spray | present | workers | the coloured paint marks | the pavement | before roadworks | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme on pavement=Destination | ||
| 3 | is a | present | the coloured paint marks | a map | of that hidden city | tree rules | |||
| 4 | show | gerund | a map not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | run | present | pipes and cables | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not hit | present · do-support | the diggers | pipes = pipe | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:2.
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, 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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