Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 13
In the UK zebra crossings have flashing orange globes on black and white poles, called Belisha beacons.
Who acts: zebra crossings, black poles · What happens: flash, call · To what, where: orange globes, Belisha beacons · 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 (zebra crossings, black poles), 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 | 7 flashing | obl |
| 4 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossings | compound |
| 5 | crossings | crossing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flashing | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flashing | aux |
| 7 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 globes | amod |
| 9 | globes | globe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flashing | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 poles | case |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poles | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 white | cc |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 black | conj |
| 14 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 globes | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 poles | acl |
| 17 | Belisha | Belisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 beacons | compound |
| 18 | beacons | beacon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 called | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flashing | 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 | flash | present | zebra crossings | orange globes | on black poles; in the UK | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent globe=Patient in uk=Topic | |||
| 2 | call | participle | black poles not said here | Belisha beacons | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beacon=Recipient |
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:13.
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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