Roads and road signs, sentence 9
Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads in it, so the lines reflect headlights at night.
Who acts: special paint, lines · What happens: paint, have, reflect · To what, where: Road lines, tiny glass beads, paint, headlights
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 (special paint, lines), 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 | Road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lines | compound |
| 2 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | aux:pass |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 paint | case |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paint | amod |
| 7 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 painted | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 paint | acl:relcl |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beads | amod |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beads | compound |
| 12 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 has | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reflect | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 reflect | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lines | det |
| 18 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reflect | nsubj |
| 19 | reflect | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | conj |
| 20 | headlights | headlight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reflect | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reflect | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present · passive | Road lines | with special paint | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with paint=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | special paint | tiny glass beads | paint | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Patient | |||
| 3 | reflect | present | the lines | headlights | night | tree rules |
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:9.
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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