Phones and how a call travels, sentence 14
Never read or send messages while crossing a road.
Who acts: you · What happens: not read, send, cross · To what, where: messages, road
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and how a call travels» 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 (you), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 read | advmod |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 send | cc |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | conj |
| 5 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 send | obj |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 crossing | mark |
| 7 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 send | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossing | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | imperative | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send | infinitive | you not said here | messages | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cross | gerund | you not said here | a road | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
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:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:14.
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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