Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 8
At light-controlled crossings you press the button and wait for the walk signal.
Who acts: you · What happens: control, press, wait · To what, where: button, controlled crossings
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), 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 | _ | 5 crossings | case |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 controlled | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 light | punct |
| 4 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 crossings | amod |
| 5 | crossings | crossing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 press | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 press | nsubj |
| 7 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 button | det |
| 9 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 press | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wait | cc |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 press | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 signal | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 signal | det |
| 14 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 signal | compound |
| 15 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 press | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | participle | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | press | present | you | the button | controlled crossings | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme | |||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | for the walk signal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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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