Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 13
A stop line shows where drivers must stop, and double yellow lines in the UK and Ireland mean no parking.
Who acts: stop line, drivers, double yellow lines · What happens: show, stop, mean · To what, where: parking · 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 (stop line, drivers, double yellow lines), 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 | 3 line | det |
| 2 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 line | compound |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 stop | advmod |
| 6 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stop | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stop | aux |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shows | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mean | cc |
| 11 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lines | amod |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lines | amod |
| 13 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 UK | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 UK | det |
| 16 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lines | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Ireland | cc |
| 18 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 UK | conj |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shows | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 parking | det |
| 21 | parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mean | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a stop line | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop | must | drivers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | double yellow lines in the UK and Ireland | no parking | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parking=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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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