"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 14
Far fewer children are killed on Britain's roads today than in the 1970s.
What happens: kill · To what, where: fewer children, roads
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» 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: 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 fewer | advmod |
| 2 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 roads | case |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 roads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Britain | case |
| 9 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | obl |
| 10 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 1970s | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1970s | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 1970s | det |
| 14 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 5 killed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | 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 | kill | present · passive | fewer children | Britain's roads | today | than the 1970s | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.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.
See the release 0.4.
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