--- title: Live bus stop signs use the GPS position each bus sends, worked out… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: Live bus stop signs use the GPS position each bus sends, worked out from satellites in space, and a computer works out when it will arrive; a bus stuck in traffic can still show «due». Who acts: Live stop signs, bus, computer. 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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 (Live stop signs, bus, computer), 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:7 # text = Live bus stop signs use the GPS position each bus sends, worked out from satellites in space, and a computer works out when it will arrive; a bus stuck in traffic can still show «due». # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 GPS GPS NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 satellites satellite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 arrive arrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 32 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 37 obj _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Live stop signs | the GPS position | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient | | 2 | **send** | present | each bus | the GPS position *not said here* | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme | | 3 | **work out** | past | each bus *not said here* | | | satellites in space | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **work out** | present | a computer | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **arrive** | future | computer | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stick** | participle | | a bus *not said here* | | traffic | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in traffic=Destination | | 7 | **show** | can | a bus | due | | | still | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent due=Recipient | 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:7`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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