Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 4

When the red standing figure shows, you wait on the pavement even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light.

Who acts: red standing figure, you, road, cars · What happens: show, wait, look, have · To what, where: pavement, green light

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 (red standing figure, you, road, cars), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 shows	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 figure	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 figure	amod
4	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figure	compound
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nsubj
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wait	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wait	nsubj
9	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 pavement	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pavement	det
12	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wait	obl
13	even	even	ADV	_	17 looks	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 looks	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looks	nsubj
17	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wait	advcl
18	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looks	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cars	det
22	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wait	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 light	det
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 light	amod
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	the red standing figure				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	present	you		the pavement		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pavement=Location
3	look a condition, not said to happen	present	the road			empty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	present	the cars	a green light			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient

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:4.

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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