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title: Every year many walkers are hurt because they were looking at a phon… — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: Every year many walkers are hurt because they were looking at a phone instead of the road. Who acts: walkers. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 16

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Every year many walkers are hurt because they were looking at a phone instead of the road.

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**Who acts:** walkers · **What happens:** hurt, look · **To what, where:** many walkers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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 (walkers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:011-eyes-up.lesson:16
# text = Every year many walkers are hurt because they were looking at a phone instead of the road.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 011-eyes-up.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	walkers	walker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | many walkers |  |  | year |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | past · progressive | walkers *= walker* |  |  |  |  | instead the road; at a phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=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:011-eyes-up.lesson:16`.

**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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