--- title: A siren and flashing blue lights mean police are rushing to an emerg… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A siren and flashing blue lights mean police are rushing to an emergency, and other drivers must pull over to let them through. Who acts: siren, police, other drivers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (siren, police, other drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:5 # text = A siren and flashing blue lights mean police are rushing to an emergency, and other drivers must pull over to let them through. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 siren siren NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 flashing flash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 5 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 rushing rush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 20 over over ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 through through ADV RB _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flash** | gerund | a siren *not said here* | blue lights | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | a siren | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **rush** | present · progressive | police | | | | | to a emergency *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to emergency=Result | | 4 | **pull over** | must | other drivers | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **let through** | to-infinitive | other drivers *not said here* | drivers *= driver* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:5`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/4/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)