Police, courts and prison, sentence 5

A siren and flashing blue lights mean police are rushing to an emergency, and other drivers must pull over to let them through.

Who acts: siren, police, other drivers · What happens: flash, mean, rush, pull over, let through · To what, where: blue lights, drivers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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 (siren, police, other drivers), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 siren	det
2	siren	siren	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 flashing	cc
4	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 siren	conj
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lights	amod
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flashing	obj
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rushing	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rushing	aux
10	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mean	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 emergency	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 emergency	det
13	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rushing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pull	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pull	cc
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 drivers	amod
17	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pull	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pull	aux
19	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mean	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	19 pull	compound:prt
21	to	to	PART	_	22 let	mark
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pull	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	through	through	ADV	_	22 let	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flash	gerund	a siren not said here	blue lights		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	mean	present	a siren			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rush	present · progressive	police		to a emergency result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to emergency=Result
4	pull over	must	other drivers			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let through	to-infinitive	other drivers not said here	drivers = driver		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:5.

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 ×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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