Roads and road signs, sentence 5
Shapes and colours on signs, white lines with glittering glass beads, cat's eyes that shine back in the headlights and bumps outside a school all tell a driver what to do in a split second.
Who acts: eyes, Shapes · What happens: glitter, shine back, tell, do · To what, where: headlights, driver · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, Shapes), 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 | Shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 colours | cc |
| 3 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shapes | conj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 signs | case |
| 5 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shapes | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lines | punct |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lines | amod |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shapes | conj |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 glittering | mark |
| 10 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 beads | amod |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beads | compound |
| 12 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lines | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 cat | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shapes | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shine | nsubj |
| 18 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 shine | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 headlights | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 headlights | det |
| 22 | headlights | headlight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shine | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bumps | cc |
| 24 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 headlights | conj |
| 25 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 27 school | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 school | det |
| 27 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bumps | nmod |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 29 tell | advmod |
| 29 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 driver | det |
| 31 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tell | obj |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 do | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 driver | acl:relcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 second | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 second | det |
| 37 | split | split | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 second | amod |
| 38 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | shine back | present | cat's eyes | the headlights and bumps outside a school | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in headlight=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | Shapes on signs and colours and white lines glittering glass beads and cat's eyes | a driver | all property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Shapes on signs and colours and white lines glittering glass beads and cat's eyes not said here | a driver | second | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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:5.
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): R5-strong ×4. 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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