Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 0

At a pedestrian crossing a red standing figure means wait, even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light and may come fast.

Who acts: red standing figure, road, cars · What happens: mean, wait, look, have, come · To what, where: pedestrian crossing, green light · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» 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 (red standing figure, road, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 crossing	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crossing	det
3	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	compound
4	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 figure	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 figure	amod
7	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 figure	compound
8	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looks	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	16 looks	advmod
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 looks	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looks	nsubj
16	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
17	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looks	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cars	det
21	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 looks	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 light	det
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 light	amod
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	conj
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 come	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a red standing figure		a pedestrian crossing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look a condition, not said to happen	present	the road			empty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	present	the cars	a green light			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
5	come	may	the cars not said here			fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:0.

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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