Roads and road signs, sentence 10
Cat's eyes, the little reflectors set into the middle of the road, were invented by Percy Shaw in England in 1934.
Who acts: Percy Shaw · What happens: set, invent · To what, where: little reflectors, middle, eyes, England
This is a sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» 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 (Percy Shaw), 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 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Cat | case |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eyes | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reflectors | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reflectors | amod |
| 7 | reflectors | reflector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | appos |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reflectors | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 middle | det |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 middle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 invented | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 invented | aux:pass |
| 17 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Shaw | case |
| 19 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Shaw | compound |
| 20 | Shaw | Shaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 invented | obl:agent |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 England | case |
| 22 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 invented | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1934 | case |
| 24 | 1934 | 1934 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 invented | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the little reflectors not said here | the middle of the road | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | invent | past · passive | Percy Shaw | Cat's eyes | England | in 1934 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
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:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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