Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 14
At a zebra crossing you wait until the traffic has stopped before stepping onto the road.
Who acts: you, traffic · What happens: wait, stop, step · To what, where: zebra crossing, road
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, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 crossing | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crossing | det |
| 3 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossing | compound |
| 4 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 traffic | det |
| 9 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | aux |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 wait | advcl |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 stepping | mark |
| 13 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 14 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stepping | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | you | a zebra crossing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=Location | ||||
| 2 | stop | present · perfect | the traffic | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | step | gerund | the traffic not said here | the road | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto road=Trajectory |
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:14.
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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