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title: A stop line shows where drivers must stop, and double yellow lines i… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: A stop line shows where drivers must stop, and double yellow lines in the UK and Ireland mean no parking. Who acts: stop line, drivers, double yellow lines. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 13

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A stop line shows where drivers must stop, and double yellow lines in the UK and Ireland mean no parking.

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**Who acts:** stop line, drivers, double yellow lines · **What happens:** show, stop, mean · **To what, where:** parking · **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 (stop line, drivers, double yellow lines), 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:13
# text = A stop line shows where drivers must stop, and double yellow lines in the UK and Ireland mean no parking.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	parking	parking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **show** | present | a stop line |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** | must | drivers |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mean** | present | double yellow lines in the UK and Ireland | no parking |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parking=Topic |

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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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**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:13`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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