Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 1

Crossings are made for everyone: a beeping or ticking sound tells blind people when to cross, and in the UK a little cone under the button box spins for people who can neither see nor hear well.

Who acts: beeping sound, little cone, people · What happens: make, tick, tell, cross, spin, see · To what, where: Crossings, blind people, UK · 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 (beeping sound, little cone, people), 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	Crossings	crossing	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	for	for	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 made	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sound	det
8	beeping	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sound	compound
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ticking	cc
10	ticking	tick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 beeping	conj
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tells	nsubj
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
13	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ticking	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cross	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cross	mark
17	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 people	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spins	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spins	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 UK	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 UK	det
22	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 spins	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cone	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cone	amod
25	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spins	nsubj
26	under	under	ADP	_	29 box	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 box	det
28	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 box	compound
29	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cone	nmod
30	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 people	case
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 spins	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 see	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 see	aux
35	neither	neither	ADV	_	36 see	advmod
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 people	acl:relcl
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 hear	cc
38	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 see	conj
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 hear	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Crossings		for everyone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for everyone=Beneficiary
2	tick	gerund	a beeping sound not said here	blind people			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	a beeping sound				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cross	to-infinitive	a beeping sound not said here	blind people not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spin	present	a little cone under the button box		the UK	for people	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in uk=Trajectory
6	see	can	people			neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	hear	infinitive	people not said here			well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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