Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 0

A busy street is a big shared machine: buses, trams, lorries and people all move at once, and traffic lights and crossings take turns so they don't crash into each other.

Who acts: busy street, people, traffic lights, lights · What happens: share, be, move, take, not crash · To what, where: big shared machine, turns, each

This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology 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 (busy street, people, traffic lights, lights), 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	3 street	det
2	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 street	amod
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 machine	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 machine	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 machine	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 machine	amod
7	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 machine	amod
8	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 buses	punct
10	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 machine	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trams	punct
12	trams	tram	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buses	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lorries	punct
14	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buses	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 people	cc
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buses	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 move	advmod
18	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 people	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 move	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
23	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lights	compound
24	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 crossings	cc
26	crossings	crossing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lights	conj
27	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 machine	conj
28	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	obj
29	so	so	SCONJ	_	33 crash	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 crash	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 crash	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 crash	advmod
33	crash	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	advcl
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 each	case
35	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	33 crash	obl
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 each	fixed
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 machine	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share	participle				tree rules
2	is a	present	a busy street	a big shared machine		tree rules
3	move	present	people not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
4	take	present	traffic lights and crossings	turns		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
5	not crash	present · do-support	lights = light		into each result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into each=Result

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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:0.

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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