--- title: A siren means an emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance, a fire eng… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics description: A siren means an emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance, a fire engine or a police car, is coming. Who acts: siren, emergency vehicle. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sounds that warn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/) / 6 # Sounds that warn, sentence 6 A siren means an emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance, a fire engine or a police car, is coming. **Who acts:** siren, emergency vehicle · **What happens:** mean, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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 (siren, emergency vehicle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:6 # text = A siren means an emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance, a fire engine or a police car, is coming. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 012-sounds-that-warn.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 siren siren NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 vehicle vehicle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 11 case _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ambulance ambulance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a siren | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | present · progressive | a emergency vehicle such a ambulance and a fire engine or a police car | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:6`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sounds that warn, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/5/) - next →: [Sounds that warn, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/)