--- title: A signpost arrow shows the way to a town and the number shows how fa… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: A signpost arrow shows the way to a town and the number shows how far it is; in the UK that number is in miles. Who acts: signpost arrow, 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 pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/) / 16 # Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 16 A signpost arrow shows the way to a town and the number shows how far it is; in the UK that number is in miles. **Who acts:** signpost arrow, number · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** way, town, UK 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 (signpost arrow, 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:16 # text = A signpost arrow shows the way to a town and the number shows how far it is; in the UK that number is in miles. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 signpost signpost NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 22 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:det|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Rel 23 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a signpost arrow | the way | a town | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to town=Recipient | | 2 | **show** | present | the number | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | number | | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | that number | | | the UK | | in miles | tree rules | 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:16`. **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): R8-pos-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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/15/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/)