--- title: Pressing a crossing button tells the lights someone wants to cross;… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: Pressing a crossing button tells the lights someone wants to cross; a beep or a small cone that spins under the box tells blind people when it is safe. Who acts: Pressing, someone, beep, button. 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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 (Pressing, someone, beep, button), 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:12 # text = Pressing a crossing button tells the lights someone wants to cross; a beep or a small cone that spins under the box tells blind people when it is safe. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pressing press VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 beep beep NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 24 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | gerund | | a crossing button | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Pressing | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** | present | someone | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **cross** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **spin** | present | a beep or a small cone | | | the box | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under box=Trajectory | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a beep or a small cone | | blind people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 7 | **is** | present | button | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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 ×2, 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. 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