--- title: Much of it is quietly clever: the bus stop sign knows when your bus… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: Much of it is quietly clever: the bus stop sign knows when your bus is coming from its GPS, the crossing box has a little spinning cone for blind people, and a tap of a card pays your fare by radio. Who acts: Much, stop sign, bus, crossing box. 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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 (Much, stop sign, bus, crossing box), 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:1 # text = Much of it is quietly clever: the bus stop sign knows when your bus is coming from its GPS, the crossing box has a little spinning cone for blind people, and a tap of a card pays your fare by radio. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:PronType=Ind 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 GPS GPS NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 fare fare NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Much of machine | | | | | clever, quietly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | the stop sign | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | present · progressive | your bus | | | machine's GPS | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from gps=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **have** | present | the crossing box | a little spinning cone | | | | for blind people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Patient | | 5 | **pay** | present | a tap of a card | your fare | | | | by radio | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fare=Asset | | 6 | **tap** | | a card | | | | | | nom tap «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights/0/) - next →: [Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights/)