Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 1
Japan's trains are famous for it: in 2017 a company said sorry in public because a train left 20 seconds early, since early is wrong too when people plan to catch it.
Who acts: trains, company, train, people · What happens: be, say, leave, plan, catch · To what, where: 2017, company · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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 (trains, company, train, people), 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 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trains | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Japan | case |
| 3 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 famous | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 famous | cop |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 famous | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2017 | case |
| 10 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 said | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 famous | parataxis |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 public | case |
| 16 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sorry | obl |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 left | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 train | det |
| 19 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | nsubj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 21 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 seconds | nummod |
| 22 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 early | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 left | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wrong | punct |
| 25 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 28 wrong | mark |
| 26 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 wrong | advmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wrong | cop |
| 28 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 famous | parataxis |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 plan | advmod |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 plan | advmod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 plan | nsubj |
| 32 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wrong | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 catch | mark |
| 34 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 plan | xcomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 catch | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 famous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Japan's trains | for it; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: apologize | past | a company | 2017 | sorry property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in 2017=Manner | |||
| 3 | leave | past | a train | early property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | early, wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | plan | present | people | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | company | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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