--- title: If the green figure starts flashing while you are already crossing,… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: If the green figure starts flashing while you are already crossing, keep walking steadily to the other side; do not run back or stop in the middle. Who acts: green figure, you. 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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 (green figure, you), 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:21 # text = If the green figure starts flashing while you are already crossing, keep walking steadily to the other side; do not run back or stop in the middle. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 flashing flash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 already already ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 steadily steadily ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 24 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | the green figure | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **flash** | gerund | the green figure *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cross** | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | to the other side *result*; steadily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | | 6 | **not** **run back** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **stop** | infinitive | | | | the middle | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | 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:21`. **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): R6-punct-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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/20/) - next →: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/)