Roads and road signs, sentence 11

A motorway has no crossings and no traffic lights, only gentle bends, several lanes and slip roads to join and leave; the first UK motorway, the Preston Bypass, opened in 1958.

Who acts: motorway, first UK motorway · What happens: have, join, leave, open · To what, where: crossings, 1958

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 (motorway, first UK motorway), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 motorway	det
2	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 crossings	det
5	crossings	crossing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lights	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 lights	det
8	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lights	compound
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crossings	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bends	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 bends	advmod
12	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bends	amod
13	bends	bend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crossings	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lanes	punct
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lanes	amod
16	lanes	lane	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crossings	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 roads	cc
18	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roads	compound
19	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crossings	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 join	mark
21	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 roads	acl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 leave	cc
23	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 join	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 motorway	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 motorway	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 motorway	amod
27	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 motorway	compound
28	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Bypass	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Bypass	det
31	Preston	Preston	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Bypass	compound
32	Bypass	bypass	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 motorway	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 motorway	punct
34	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 motorway	acl:relcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 1958	case
36	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 opened	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a motorway	no crossings and no traffic lights and gentle bends and several lanes and slip roads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossing=Patient
2	join	to-infinitive	a motorway not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	leave	infinitive	a motorway not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	past	the first UK motorway not said here		1958	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1958=Location

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:11.

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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