Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 22
In Britain you can start learning to drive a car at 17.
Who acts: you · What happens: start, learn, drive · To what, where: Britain, car, 17
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 start | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 start | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | aux |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 start | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 learning | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 car | det |
| 10 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 17 | case |
| 12 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 drive | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 start | 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 | start | can | you | Britain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | learn | gerund | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | you not said here | a car | 17 | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent car=Theme at 17=Destination |
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:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:22.
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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