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title: When a bus or car brakes suddenly, the people inside lurch forward. — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: When a bus or car brakes suddenly, the people inside lurch forward. Who acts: bus, people. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 11

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When a bus or car brakes suddenly, the people inside lurch forward.

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**Who acts:** bus, people · **What happens:** brake, lurch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (bus, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:11
# text = When a bus or car brakes suddenly, the people inside lurch forward.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	brakes	brake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	lurch	lurch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brake** | present | a bus or car |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lurch** | present | the people |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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