Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 16
A buffer is extra time kept spare in case something goes wrong, such as a lost passport or traffic.
Who acts: buffer, something · What happens: be, keep, go, lose · To what, where: extra time
This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world 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 (buffer, something), 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 buffer | det |
| 2 | buffer | buffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl |
| 7 | spare | spare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 case | fixed |
| 9 | case | case | SCONJ | _ | 11 goes | mark |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | advcl |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goes | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passport | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 passport | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 passport | det |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 passport | amod |
| 18 | passport | passport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goes | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 traffic | cc |
| 20 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passport | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a buffer | extra time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | extra time not said here | spare property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | present | something | such a lost passport or traffic; wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:16.
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): R6-punct-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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