--- title: At a pedestrian crossing a red standing figure means wait, even if t… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: At a pedestrian crossing a red standing figure means wait, even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light and may come fast. Who acts: red standing figure, road, cars. 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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 (red standing figure, road, cars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:0 # text = At a pedestrian crossing a red standing figure means wait, even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light and may come fast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 267-traffic-lights-and-signs.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): no change 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 pedestrian pedestrian NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 standing standing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a red standing figure | | | a pedestrian crossing | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the road | | | | | empty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | present | the cars | a green light | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 5 | **come** | may | the cars *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | 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:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/21/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/)