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title: When the red standing figure shows, you wait on the pavement even if… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: When the red standing figure shows, you wait on the pavement even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light. Who acts: red standing figure, you, road, cars. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 4

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When the red standing figure shows, you wait on the pavement even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light.

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**Who acts:** red standing figure, you, road, cars · **What happens:** show, wait, look, have · **To what, where:** pavement, green light

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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 (red standing figure, you, road, cars), 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:4
# text = When the red standing figure shows, you wait on the pavement even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light.
# 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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | the red standing figure |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | present | you |  |  | the pavement |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pavement=Location |
| 3 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the road |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present | the cars | a green light |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |

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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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**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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