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title: The same number on a speed sign means a faster speed in miles per ho… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: The same number on a speed sign means a faster speed in miles per hour than in kilometres per hour. Who acts: same number. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 15

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The same number on a speed sign means a faster speed in miles per hour than in kilometres per hour.

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**Who acts:** same number · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** faster speed

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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 (same number), 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:15
# text = The same number on a speed sign means a faster speed in miles per hour than in kilometres per hour.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	per	per	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	per	per	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | the same number on a speed sign | a faster speed |  |  |  | in miles per hour than kilometres per hour | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot speed=Theme in mile=Attribute |

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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:15`.

**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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