Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 6
The button tells the lights that someone is waiting to cross.
Who acts: button, someone · What happens: tell, wait, cross · To what, where: lights · 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 (button, someone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 button | det |
| 2 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lights | det |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tells | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 waiting | mark |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 waiting | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 waiting | aux |
| 9 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tells | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cross | mark |
| 11 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 waiting | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the button | the lights | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent light=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait | present · progressive | someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | someone not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:6.
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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