Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 10

In the USA a flashing hand or a countdown means do not start crossing, but finish crossing if you are already in the road.

Who acts: flashing hand, you · What happens: mean, not start, not cross, finish, cross, be · To what, where: USA, road · 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 (flashing hand, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 USA	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 USA	det
3	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hand	det
5	flashing	flashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	compound
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 countdown	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 countdown	det
9	countdown	countdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	conj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 start	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 start	advmod
13	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
14	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 start	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 finish	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 finish	cc
17	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 start	conj
18	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 finish	xcomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 road	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 road	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 road	cop
22	already	already	ADV	_	25 road	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 road	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 finish	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	mean	present	a flashing hand or a countdown	the USA	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not start	infinitive · do-support			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not cross	gerund			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	finish	infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	cross	gerund			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the road	tree rules

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:10.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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