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title: People looking at a phone while walking drift off line and notice le… — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: People looking at a phone while walking drift off line and notice less around them. Who acts: People. 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 7

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People looking at a phone while walking drift off line and notice less around them.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** look, walk, drift off, notice · **To what, where:** line, less

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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 (People), 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:7
# text = People looking at a phone while walking drift off line and notice less around them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	drift	drift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	notice	notice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **look** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drift off** | present | People | line |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **notice** | present | People *not said here* | less |  |  |  | around people | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer less=Stimulus |

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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:7`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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