Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 12

Pressing a crossing button tells the lights someone wants to cross; a beep or a small cone that spins under the box tells blind people when it is safe.

Who acts: Pressing, someone, beep, button · What happens: press, tell, want, cross, spin, be · To what, where: crossing button, box, blind people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Pressing, someone, beep, button), 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	Pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tells	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 button	det
3	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 button	compound
4	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pressing	obj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lights	det
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 someone	compound
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 wants	nsubj
9	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cross	mark
11	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wants	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 beep	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 beep	det
14	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tells	nsubj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 cone	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cone	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cone	amod
18	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beep	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 spins	nsubj
20	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 beep	acl:relcl
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 box	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 box	det
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spins	obl
24	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	parataxis
25	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tells	obj
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 safe	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 safe	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 safe	cop
30	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tells	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	gerund		a crossing button				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	Pressing					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	present	someone					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	cross not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spin	present	a beep or a small cone			the box		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under box=Trajectory
6	tell speech: assert	present	a beep or a small cone		blind people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
7	is	present	button				safe property	tree rules

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:12.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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