Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 7

Live bus stop signs use the GPS position each bus sends, worked out from satellites in space, and a computer works out when it will arrive; a bus stuck in traffic can still show «due».

Who acts: Live stop signs, bus, computer · What happens: use, send, work out, arrive, stick, show · To what, where: GPS position, satellites, bus, traffic, due

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 (Live stop signs, bus, computer), 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	Live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signs	amod
2	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	compound
3	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signs	compound
4	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 position	det
7	GPS	GPS	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 position	compound
8	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bus	det
10	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sends	nsubj
11	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 position	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 worked	punct
13	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sends	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 worked	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 satellites	case
16	satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 worked	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 space	case
18	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 satellites	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 works	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 works	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 computer	det
22	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 works	nsubj
23	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 works	compound:prt
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 arrive	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 arrive	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 arrive	aux
28	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 works	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 show	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bus	det
31	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 show	nsubj
32	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 bus	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 traffic	case
34	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stuck	obl
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 show	aux
36	still	still	ADV	_	37 show	advmod
37	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	parataxis
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 due	punct
39	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	37 show	obj
40	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 due	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	use	present	Live stop signs	the GPS position			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient
2	send	present	each bus	the GPS position not said here			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme
3	work out	past	each bus not said here		satellites in space		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	work out	present	a computer				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	arrive	future	computer				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stick	participle		a bus not said here	traffic		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in traffic=Destination
7	show	can	a bus	due		still	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent due=Recipient

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:7.

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. 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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