Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 13

A school crossing guard, also called a lollipop man or lollipop lady, stops the traffic, and you cross only when they signal you.

Who acts: crossing guard, you, cars · What happens: call, stop, cross, signal · To what, where: lollipop man, traffic, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday 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 (crossing guard, you, cars), 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	4 guard	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossing	compound
3	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guard	compound
4	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stops	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guard	punct
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 called	advmod
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guard	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	compound
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 lady	cc
12	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lady	compound
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stops	punct
15	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 traffic	det
17	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stops	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cross	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cross	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 cross	nsubj
21	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stops	conj
22	only	only	ADV	_	21 cross	advmod
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 signal	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 signal	nsubj
25	signal	signal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cross	advcl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 signal	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stops	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	participle	a crossing guard not said here	a lollipop man or lollipop lady		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	a crossing guard	the traffic		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality traffic=Eventuality
3	cross	present	you			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	signal speech: other	present	cars = car		you	vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:13.

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): 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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