Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 21

If the green figure starts flashing while you are already crossing, keep walking steadily to the other side; do not run back or stop in the middle.

Who acts: green figure, you · What happens: start, flash, cross, keep, walk, not run back · To what, where: middle

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 (green figure, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 starts	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figure	det
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 starts	xcomp
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 crossing	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 crossing	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 crossing	aux
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 crossing	advmod
11	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 flashing	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 crossing	conj
14	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keep	xcomp
15	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	14 walking	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 side	amod
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walking	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 run	punct
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 run	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 run	advmod
23	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	parataxis
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 run	advmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 stop	cc
26	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 run	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 middle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 middle	det
29	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stop	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	start	present	the green figure			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	flash	gerund	the green figure not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cross	present · progressive	you			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
5	walk	gerund	you not said here		to the other side result; steadily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result
6	not run back	infinitive · do-support				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stop	infinitive		the middle		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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:21.

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): R6-punct-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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