Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 9
A give way or yield sign means drivers must slow down and let other traffic go first.
Who acts: way yield sign, drivers, other traffic · What happens: mean, slow down, let, go · 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 (way yield sign, drivers, other traffic), 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 | 6 sign | det |
| 2 | give | give | NOUN | _ | 3 way | compound |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | compound |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 sign | cc |
| 5 | yield | yield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | compound |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slow | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 slow | aux |
| 10 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 slow | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 slow | conj |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 traffic | amod |
| 15 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a way yield sign | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | slow down | must | drivers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | drivers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | other traffic | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:9.
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): 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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