Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 4

At a level crossing or railroad crossing you stop when the lights flash, the bells ring or the barriers come down, because a train is coming.

Who acts: you, lights, bells, barriers, train · What happens: stop, flash, ring, come down, come · To what, where: level crossing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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 (you, lights, bells, barriers), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 crossing	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crossing	det
3	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	compound
4	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 crossing	cc
6	railroad	railroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossing	compound
7	crossing	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 flash	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lights	det
12	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flash	nsubj
13	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ring	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bells	det
16	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ring	nsubj
17	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 flash	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 barriers	det
20	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ring	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flash	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 coming	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 train	det
26	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coming	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 coming	aux
28	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stop	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	present	you	a level crossing or railroad crossing		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=Location
2	flash	present	the lights			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ring	present	the bells			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come down	present	the barriers		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	present · progressive	a train			vn escape-51.1-1 «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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.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): R2-punct-next ×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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