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title: A no pedestrians sign means nobody may walk there; you never walk on… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: A no pedestrians sign means nobody may walk there; you never walk on a motorway, freeway or highway, where cars drive very fast. Who acts: pedestrians sign, nobody, you, cars. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 11

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A no pedestrians sign means nobody may walk there; you never walk on a motorway, freeway or highway, where cars drive very fast.

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**Who acts:** pedestrians sign, nobody, you, cars · **What happens:** mean, walk, not walk, drive · **To what, where:** motorway · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» 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 (pedestrians sign, nobody, you, 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:11
# text = A no pedestrians sign means nobody may walk there; you never walk on a motorway, freeway or highway, where cars drive very 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	pedestrians	pedestrian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	motorway	motorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	freeway	freeway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a pedestrians sign |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | may | nobody |  |  | there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | you |  |  | a motorway and freeway or highway |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on motorway=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drive** | present | cars |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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/).

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