--- title: Crossings are made for everyone: a beeping or ticking sound tells bl… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: Crossings are made for everyone: a beeping or ticking sound tells blind people when to cross, and in the UK a little cone under the button box spins for people who can neither see nor hear well. Who acts: beeping sound, little cone, people. 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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 (beeping sound, little cone, people), 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:1 # text = Crossings are made for everyone: a beeping or ticking sound tells blind people when to cross, and in the UK a little cone under the button box spins for people who can neither see nor hear well. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Crossings crossing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 beeping beep NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ticking tick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 11 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 neither neither ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 38 cc _ _ 38 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **make** | present · passive | | Crossings | | | | for everyone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for everyone=Beneficiary | | 2 | **tick** | gerund | a beeping sound *not said here* | blind people | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a beeping sound | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | a beeping sound *not said here* | blind people *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **spin** | present | a little cone under the button box | | | the UK | | for people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in uk=Trajectory | | 6 | **see** | can | people | | | | | neither *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **hear** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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:1`. **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, 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: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/0/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/)