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title: In the UK zebra crossings have flashing orange globes on black and w… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK zebra crossings have flashing orange globes on black and white poles, called Belisha beacons. Who acts: zebra crossings, black poles. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 13

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In the UK zebra crossings have flashing orange globes on black and white poles, called Belisha beacons.

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**Who acts:** zebra crossings, black poles · **What happens:** flash, call · **To what, where:** orange globes, Belisha beacons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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 (zebra crossings, black poles), 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:13
# text = In the UK zebra crossings have flashing orange globes on black and white poles, called Belisha beacons.
# 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): 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	7	obl	_	_
4	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	crossings	crossing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	globes	globe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
17	Belisha	Belisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	beacons	beacon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **flash** | present | zebra crossings | orange globes |  |  |  | on black poles; in the UK | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent globe=Patient in uk=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | participle | black poles *not said here* | Belisha beacons |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beacon=Recipient |

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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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:13`.

**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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