Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 1

At a crossing with lights you press the button and wait for the signal to walk: a green or white walking person; a red person or a red or orange hand means do not start crossing.

Who acts: you · What happens: press, wait, walk, mean, not start, not cross · To what, where: button, crossing, green walking person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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), 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	_	3 crossing	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crossing	det
3	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 press	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 lights	case
5	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crossing	nmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 press	nsubj
7	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 button	det
9	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 press	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wait	cc
11	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 press	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 signal	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 signal	det
14	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wait	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 walk	mark
16	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wait	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 walk	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 person	det
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 person	amod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 white	cc
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 green	conj
22	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 person	compound
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 person	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 person	det
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 person	amod
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 means	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hand	det
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hand	amod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 orange	cc
32	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 red	conj
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 person	conj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 person	conj
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 start	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 start	advmod
37	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 means	ccomp
38	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 start	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 press	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	present	you	the button	a crossing with lights		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here			for the signal	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	to-infinitive	you not said here	a green walking person			tree rules
4	mean	present	you not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not start	present · do-support					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not cross	gerund					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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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