Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 3

Even when the signal says walk, you still look, because a driver turning the corner or rushing through a red light may not stop.

Who acts: signal, you, driver · What happens: say, look, turn, rush, not stop · To what, where: walk, corner, red light · 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 (signal, you, 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	Even	even	ADV	_	5 says	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 says	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 signal	det
4	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	advcl
6	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 look	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 look	advmod
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 stop	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 driver	det
14	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stop	nsubj
15	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 driver	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 corner	det
17	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turning	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 rushing	cc
19	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 turning	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 light	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 light	det
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 light	amod
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rushing	obl
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stop	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 stop	advmod
26	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 look	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the signal	walk			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent walk=Topic
2	look	present	you			still	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	turn	gerund	a driver not said here	the corner			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme
4	rush	gerund	a driver not said here		a red light		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through light=Trajectory
5	not stop	may	a driver				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:3.

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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