--- title: Shapes and colours on signs, white lines with glittering glass beads… — Roads and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: Shapes and colours on signs, white lines with glittering glass beads, cat's eyes that shine back in the headlights and bumps outside a school all tell a driver what to do in a split second. Who acts: eyes, Shapes. 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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 (eyes, Shapes), 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:5 # text = Shapes and colours on signs, white lines with glittering glass beads, cat's eyes that shine back in the headlights and bumps outside a school all tell a driver what to do in a split second. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 Shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 9 with with SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 beads bead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shine shine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 headlights headlight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 outside outside ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 28 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 29 advmod _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 split split ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glitter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shine back** | present | cat's eyes | | | the headlights and bumps outside a school | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in headlight=Location | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Shapes on signs and colours and white lines glittering glass beads and cat's eyes | | a driver | | | all *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Shapes on signs and colours and white lines glittering glass beads and cat's eyes *not said here* | a driver | | | second | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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 ×4. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/4/) - next →: [Roads and road signs, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/)