Roads and road signs, sentence 13

At a roundabout drivers give way to traffic already coming round, so cars keep moving instead of stopping at lights and only stop when something is coming, not because a timer says so; Swindon's Magic Roundabout is made of five small roundabouts around one big one.

Who acts: drivers, traffic, cars, something, timer · What happens: give, come round, keep, move, stop, come · To what, where: way, traffic, roundabout, lights, Magic Roundabout · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» 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 (drivers, traffic, cars, something), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 roundabout	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 roundabout	det
3	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
4	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 traffic	case
8	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 coming	advmod
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 traffic	acl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 coming	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
14	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keep	nsubj
15	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	conj
16	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 keep	xcomp
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 stopping	mark
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 moving	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 lights	case
21	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stopping	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stop	cc
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 stop	advmod
24	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 keep	conj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 coming	advmod
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 coming	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 coming	aux
28	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 stop	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 says	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 says	advmod
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 says	mark
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 timer	det
33	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 says	nsubj
34	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stop	advcl
35	so	so	ADV	_	34 says	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
37	Swindon	Swindon	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Roundabout	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 Swindon	case
39	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Roundabout	compound
40	Roundabout	roundabout	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 made	nsubj:pass
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 made	aux:pass
42	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 give	parataxis
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 roundabouts	case
44	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 roundabouts	nummod
45	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 roundabouts	amod
46	roundabouts	roundabout	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 made	obl
47	around	around	ADP	_	50 one	case
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 one	nummod
49	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 one	amod
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	drivers	way	traffic	a roundabout		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at roundabout=Asset to traffic=Recipient
2	come round	gerund	traffic not said here				round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	cars					tree rules
4	move	gerund	cars not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	stop	gerund	cars not said here			lights		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at light=Location
6	stop	present	cars not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	come	present · progressive	something					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	not say speech: assert	present	a timer					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	make	present · passive		Swindon's Magic Roundabout			of five small roundabouts; around one big one	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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