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title: When you hear a siren near a road, stay on the pavement or sidewalk… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: When you hear a siren near a road, stay on the pavement or sidewalk and wait until the vehicle has passed. Who acts: you, vehicle. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sounds that warn, sentence 7

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When you hear a siren near a road, stay on the pavement or sidewalk and wait until the vehicle has passed.

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**Who acts:** you, vehicle · **What happens:** hear, stay, wait, pass · **To what, where:** siren, road, pavement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» 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 (you, vehicle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:7
# text = When you hear a siren near a road, stay on the pavement or sidewalk and wait until the vehicle has passed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 012-sounds-that-warn.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	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	siren	siren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **hear** | present | you | a siren |  | a road |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer siren=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the pavement or sidewalk |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pavement=Location |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | present · perfect | the vehicle |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:012-sounds-that-warn.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): 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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