Roads and road signs, sentence 18
Temporary traffic lights at roadworks take turns letting one direction of traffic through a single lane, using timers or sensors.
Who acts: Temporary traffic lights · What happens: take, let, use · To what, where: turns, one direction, single lane, timers
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 (Temporary traffic lights), 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 | Temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lights | amod |
| 2 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lights | compound |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 roadworks | case |
| 5 | roadworks | roadwork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lights | nmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 take | advcl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 direction | nummod |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letting | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 traffic | case |
| 12 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 direction | nmod |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 lane | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lane | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lane | amod |
| 16 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 using | punct |
| 18 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 letting | advcl |
| 19 | timers | timer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 using | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 sensors | cc |
| 21 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 timers | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Temporary traffic lights at roadworks | turns | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | Temporary traffic lights at roadworks not said here | one direction of traffic | a single lane | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | |||
| 3 | use | gerund | Temporary traffic lights at roadworks not said here | timers or sensors | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timer=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:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:18.
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 ×1, 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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