Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 9
A red standing person or a red or orange hand means do not start to cross.
Who acts: red standing person · What happens: mean, not start, not cross · 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 (red standing person), 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 person | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 person | amod |
| 3 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 person | compound |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hand | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 orange | cc |
| 9 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 red | conj |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 person | conj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 start | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 start | advmod |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 cross | mark |
| 16 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 start | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a red standing person or a red hand | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not start | present · do-support | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | not cross | to-infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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