Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 8
In the UK a small cone under the crossing box spins when it is safe to cross, to help deafblind people.
Who acts: small cone, it · What happens: spin, be, cross, help · To what, where: UK, deafblind people
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 (small cone, it), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 UK | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spins | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cone | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cone | amod |
| 6 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spins | nsubj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 9 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 box | compound |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cone | nmod |
| 11 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 safe | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 safe | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 safe | cop |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spins | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cross | mark |
| 17 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 safe | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spins | advcl |
| 21 | deafblind | deafblind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 help | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spins | 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 | spin | present | a small cone under the crossing box | the UK | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in uk=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | a small cone under the crossing box not said here | deafblind people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
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:8.
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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