Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 18
A green walking signal does not always mean every driver has seen you.
Who acts: green walking signal, driver · What happens: not mean, see · To what, where: you · 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 (green walking signal, driver), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 signal | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 signal | amod |
| 3 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 signal | compound |
| 4 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mean | advmod |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | _ | 8 mean | advmod |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 driver | det |
| 10 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 mean | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · do-support | a green walking signal | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | every driver | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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:18.
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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