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title: A busy street is a big shared machine: buses, trams, lorries and peo… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics
description: A busy street is a big shared machine: buses, trams, lorries and people all move at once, and traffic lights and crossings take turns so they don't crash into each other. Who acts: busy street, people, traffic lights, lights. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the
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# Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 0

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A busy street is a big shared machine: buses, trams, lorries and people all move at once, and traffic lights and crossings take turns so they don't crash into each other.

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**Who acts:** busy street, people, traffic lights, lights · **What happens:** share, be, move, take, not crash · **To what, where:** big shared machine, turns, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology 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 (busy street, people, traffic lights, lights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:0
# text = A busy street is a big shared machine: buses, trams, lorries and people all move at once, and traffic lights and crossings take turns so they don't crash into each other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lorries	lorry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	crossings	crossing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	crash	crash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	33	obl	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	fixed	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a busy street | a big shared machine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 4 | **take** | present | traffic lights and crossings | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **crash** | present · do-support | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  | into each *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into each=Result |

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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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:0`.

**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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