Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 10
A school zone sign means cars must drive slower near the school at certain times, because children are near the road.
Who acts: zone sign, cars, children · What happens: mean, drive, be · To what, where: school, road · 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 (zone sign, cars, children), 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 sign | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 zone | compound |
| 3 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | compound |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drive | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drive | aux |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 means | ccomp |
| 9 | slower | slow | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 drive | advmod |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 school | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 school | det |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 times | case |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drive | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 road | mark |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 road | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 road | cop |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 road | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 road | det |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a zone sign | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drive | must | cars | the school | time | slow property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | present | children | the road | tree rules |
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:10.
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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