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title: Two diagonal avenues alleviate traffic and provide better access to… — Buenos Aires · tree and pragmatics
description: Two diagonal avenues alleviate traffic and provide better access to Plaza de Mayo and the city center in general; most avenues running into and out of it are one-way and feature six or more lanes, with computer-controlled green waves to speed up traffic outside of peak times. Who acts: Two diagonal 
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# Buenos Aires, sentence 316

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From Wikipedia, [«Buenos Aires»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Two diagonal avenues alleviate traffic and provide better access to Plaza de Mayo and the city center in general; most avenues running into and out of it are one-way and feature six or more lanes, with computer-controlled green waves to speed up traffic outside of peak times.

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**Who acts:** Two diagonal avenues, most avenues, access · **What happens:** alleviate, provide, run, be, control, speed up · **To what, where:** traffic, access, Plaza, one way

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Buenos Aires». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two diagonal avenues, most avenues, access), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Buenos_Aires:316
# text = Two diagonal avenues alleviate traffic and provide better access to Plaza de Mayo and the city center in general; most avenues running into and out of it are one-way and feature six or more lanes, with computer-controlled green waves to speed up traffic outside of peak times.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	diagonal	diagonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	alleviate	alleviate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Plaza	Plaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Mayo	Mayo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
23	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
38	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
44	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	acl	_	_
48	up	up	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alleviate** | present | Two diagonal avenues | traffic |  |  |  | most avenues and one way and feature or more lanes and controlled green waves *parataxis* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent traffic=Patient |
| 2 | **provide** | infinitive | Two diagonal avenues *not said here* | access | Plaza and the city center in general |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent access=Theme to plaza=Recipient |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | most avenues and one way and feature or more lanes and controlled green waves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | access | one way and feature or more lanes and controlled green waves |  |  |  | feature *conj*; more lanes and controlled green waves *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **control** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | computer *compound* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **speed up** | to-infinitive | access *not said here* | traffic |  |  | outside peak times |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traffic=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Buenos Aires», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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