Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★, sentence 11

A bus can be about 12 metres long and a family car about 4 metres, so one bus is about as long as 3 cars.

Who acts: one bus · What happens: be

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» 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 (one bus), 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 bus	det
2	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 long	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 long	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 12	advmod
6	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 bus	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 car	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 car	det
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 car	compound
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bus	conj
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 4	advmod
14	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 metres	nummod
15	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bus	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cars	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 bus	nummod
19	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 long	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 long	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 cars	advmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 cars	case
25	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 cars	nummod
26	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bus	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bus	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	is	can						12 metres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	is	present	one bus					about, long property	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:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.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): 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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