Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 3

A girl in Edinburgh presses the crossing button once and waits; her friend presses it ten times, but the lights change at the same moment for both.

Who acts: girl, friend, lights · What happens: press, wait, change · To what, where: crossing button, button

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 (girl, friend, lights), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 presses	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Edinburgh	case
4	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 button	det
7	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 button	compound
8	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 presses	obj
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 presses	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waits	cc
11	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 presses	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 presses	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presses	nsubj
15	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 presses	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 presses	obj
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 presses	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 change	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 change	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lights	det
22	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 change	nsubj
23	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 presses	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 moment	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moment	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 moment	amod
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 change	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 both	case
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 moment	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 presses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	a girl in Edinburgh	the crossing button		once property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme
2	wait	present	a girl in Edinburgh not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	press	present	girl's friend	button	time		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	change	present	the lights		moment		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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, R3-conj-first ×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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