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title: In the UK a small cone under the crossing box spins when it is safe… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK a small cone under the crossing box spins when it is safe to cross, to help deafblind people. Who acts: small cone, it. 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 c
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# Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 8

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In the UK a small cone under the crossing box spins when it is safe to cross, to help deafblind people.

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**Who acts:** small cone, it · **What happens:** spin, be, cross, help · **To what, where:** UK, deafblind people

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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 (small cone, it), 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:8
# text = In the UK a small cone under the crossing box spins when it is safe to cross, to help deafblind people.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	deafblind	deafblind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | present | a small cone under the crossing box |  |  | the UK |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in uk=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cross** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | a small cone under the crossing box *not said here* |  | deafblind people |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |

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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:8`.

**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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