Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 12
Signs with a red circle usually give orders or say no.
Who acts: Signs · What happens: give, say · To what, where: orders, no. · 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 (Signs), 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 | Signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 circle | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 circle | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 circle | amod |
| 5 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Signs | nmod |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 give | advmod |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | conj |
| 11 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 10 say | obj |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Signs with a red circle | orders | usually property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Signs with a red circle not said here | no. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=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:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:12.
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): R8-pos-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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