Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts, sentence 11

British road signs were designed in the late 1950s and 1960s by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, who also designed the lettering, so drivers can read them in a second.

Who acts: Jock Kinneir, Calvert, drivers · What happens: design, read · To what, where: British road signs, late 1950s, lettering, signs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» of the arts 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 (Jock Kinneir, Calvert, 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	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signs	amod
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signs	compound
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 designed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 designed	aux:pass
5	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 1950s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1950s	det
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 1950s	amod
9	1950s	1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 designed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 1960s	cc
11	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	9 1950s	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 Kinneir	case
13	Jock	jock	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Kinneir	compound
14	Kinneir	Kinneir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 designed	obl:agent
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Margaret	cc
16	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Kinneir	conj
17	Calvert	Calvert	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Margaret	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 designed	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 designed	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 designed	advmod
21	designed	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Calvert	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lettering	det
23	lettering	lettering	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 designed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 read	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 read	mark
26	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 read	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 read	aux
28	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 designed	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 read	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 second	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 second	det
32	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 read	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 designed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	design	past · passive	Jock Kinneir and Margaret	British road signs	the late 1950s and 1960s		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
2	design	past	Calvert	the lettering			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettering=Result
3	read	can	drivers	signs = sign		in a second	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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:arts:033-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts.lesson:11.

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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