--- title: A girl in Edinburgh presses the crossing button once and waits; her… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Edinburgh presses the crossing button once and waits; her friend presses it ten times, but the lights change at the same moment for both. Who acts: girl, friend, lights. 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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 (girl, friend, lights), 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:3 # text = A girl in Edinburgh presses the crossing button once and waits; her friend presses it ten times, but the lights change at the same moment for both. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Edinburgh Edinburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 24 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | present | a girl in Edinburgh | the crossing button | | | | once *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | present | a girl in Edinburgh *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **press** | present | girl's friend | button | | | time | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **change** | present | the lights | | | | moment | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/2/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/)