Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 8

Pressing the bell lights a sign at the front for the driver; the driver opens the doors with a button, the doors beep to warn that they are closing, and sensors and rubber edges stop them closing on people.

Who acts: Pressing, driver, doors, sensors · What happens: press, light, open, beep, warn, close · To what, where: bell, sign, front, doors · 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, driver, doors, sensors), 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	4 lights	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bell	det
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pressing	obj
4	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lights	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 front	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 front	det
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 driver	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 driver	det
12	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 opens	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 driver	det
15	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opens	nsubj
16	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lights	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 doors	det
18	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 opens	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 button	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 button	det
21	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opens	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beep	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 doors	det
24	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 beep	nsubj
25	beep	beep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 opens	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 warn	mark
27	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 beep	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 closing	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 closing	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 closing	aux
31	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 warn	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stop	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 stop	cc
34	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stop	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 edges	cc
36	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 edges	compound
37	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sensors	conj
38	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 closing	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 stop	obj
40	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 stop	xcomp
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 people	case
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 closing	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lights	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	gerund		the bell			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme
2	light	present	Pressing	a sign	the front for the driver		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
3	open	present	the driver	the doors		with a button	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with button=Instrument
4	beep	present	the doors				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	the doors not said here				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	close	present · progressive	doors = door				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	stop	present	sensors and rubber edges	doors = door			tree rules
8	close	gerund	sensors and rubber edges not said here			on people	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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