Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 4

Wherever you are, the safe habit is the same: cross on the green figure, still look both ways, and never run in front of or behind a bus.

What happens: be, cross, look, not run · To what, where: green figure, ways, front

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: 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 are	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 are	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 habit	det
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 habit	amod
7	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wherever	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 cross	punct
12	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 same	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 figure	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 figure	det
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 figure	amod
16	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cross	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
19	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 cross	parataxis
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 ways	det
21	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 run	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 run	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 run	advmod
25	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 front	case
27	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 run	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 bus	case
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 behind	cc
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	28 of	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bus	det
32	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 front	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				same property	tree rules
2	cross	infinitive		the green figure			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive	both ways		still		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not run	infinitive		front and a bus			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory

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:4.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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