--- title: At a roundabout drivers give way to traffic already coming round, so… — Roads and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: At a roundabout drivers give way to traffic already coming round, so cars keep moving instead of stopping at lights and only stop when something is coming, not because a timer says so; Swindon's Magic Roundabout is made of five small roundabouts around one big one. Who acts: drivers, traffic, cars, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Roads and road signs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/) / 13 # Roads and road signs, sentence 13 At a roundabout drivers give way to traffic already coming round, so cars keep moving instead of stopping at lights and only stop when something is coming, not because a timer says so; Swindon's Magic Roundabout is made of five small roundabouts around one big one. **Who acts:** drivers, traffic, cars, something, timer · **What happens:** give, come round, keep, move, stop, come · **To what, where:** way, traffic, roundabout, lights, Magic Roundabout · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» 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 (drivers, traffic, cars, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:13 # text = At a roundabout drivers give way to traffic already coming round, so cars keep moving instead of stopping at lights and only stop when something is coming, not because a timer says so; Swindon's Magic Roundabout is made of five small roundabouts around one big one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 031-roads-and-road-signs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 roundabout roundabout NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 8 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 already already ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ _ 11 round round ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 xcomp _ _ 17 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 19 mark _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 timer timer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 37 Swindon Swindon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 Roundabout roundabout PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 45 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 roundabouts roundabout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 47 around around ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ _ 49 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 51 . . 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 | **give** | present | drivers | way | traffic | a roundabout | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at roundabout=Asset to traffic=Recipient | | 2 | **come round** | gerund | traffic *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | cars | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **move** | gerund | cars *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | gerund | cars *not said here* | | | lights | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at light=Location | | 6 | **stop** | present | cars *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **come** | present · progressive | something | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | a timer | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **make** | present · passive | | Swindon's Magic Roundabout | | | | of five small roundabouts; around one big one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Roads and road signs, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/12/) - next →: [Roads and road signs, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/)