"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 4
So Uncle Paul drives five hours to feel safe and picks the riskier trip.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: drive, feel, pick · To what, where: riskier trip
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: who acts (Uncle), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 drives | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | nsubj |
| 3 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hours | nummod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drives | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 feel | mark |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drives | advcl |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 picks | cc |
| 11 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drives | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trip | det |
| 13 | riskier | risky | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 trip | amod |
| 14 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picks | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | Uncle | hour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | Uncle not said here | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pick | present | Uncle not said here | the riskier trip | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Patient |
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:4.
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. 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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