--- title: At a crossing with lights you press the button and wait for the sign… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics description: At a crossing with lights you press the button and wait for the signal to walk: a green or white walking person; a red person or a red or orange hand means do not start crossing. Who acts: 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:1 # text = At a crossing with lights you press the button and wait for the signal to walk: a green or white walking person; a red person or a red or orange hand means do not start crossing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 press press VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nsubj 34 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 38 crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | present | you | the button | | a crossing with lights | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for the signal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a green walking person | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **start** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **cross** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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 parked c…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/0/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/)