People and society — communities, work, money and rules, sentence 7

Laws are made by a country's lawmakers, and everyone must follow them; traffic lights are a law that stops crashes at crossroads.

Who acts: lawmakers, everyone, traffic lights, law · What happens: make, follow, be, stop · To what, where: Laws, law, crashes, crossroads

This is a sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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 (lawmakers, everyone, traffic lights, law), 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	Laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 lawmakers	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lawmakers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 country	case
8	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 follow	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 follow	cc
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 follow	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 follow	aux
13	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 follow	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 law	punct
16	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lights	compound
17	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 law	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 law	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 law	det
20	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	parataxis
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stops	nsubj
22	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 law	acl:relcl
23	crashes	crash	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stops	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 crossroads	case
25	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stops	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present · passive	a country's lawmakers	Laws		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	follow	must	everyone	laws = law		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is a	present	traffic lights	a law		tree rules
4	stop	present	a law	crashes	crossroads	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crash=Eventuality

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:058-people-and-society.lesson:7.

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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