--- title: Pressing the bell lights a sign at the front for the driver; the dri… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: Pressing the bell lights a sign at the front for the driver; the driver opens the doors with a button, the doors beep to warn that they are closing, and sensors and rubber edges stop them closing on people. Who acts: Pressing, driver, doors, sensors. 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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, driver, doors, sensors), 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:8 # text = Pressing the bell lights a sign at the front for the driver; the driver opens the doors with a button, the doors beep to warn that they are closing, and sensors and rubber edges stop them closing on people. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Pressing press VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 beep beep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 closing close VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 ccomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc 34 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc 36 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 37 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 38 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 closing close VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 xcomp _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | gerund | | the bell | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme | | 2 | **light** | present | Pressing | a sign | | the front for the driver | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | | 3 | **open** | present | the driver | the doors | | | | with a button | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with button=Instrument | | 4 | **beep** | present | the doors | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | the doors *not said here* | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **close** | present · progressive | doors *= door* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **stop** | present | sensors and rubber edges | doors *= door* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **close** | gerund | sensors and rubber edges *not said here* | | | | | on people | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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