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title: A seat is for a person, so put your bag on your lap or the floor whe… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics
description: A seat is for a person, so put your bag on your lap or the floor when the bus is busy. Who acts: seat, bus. A sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 10

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A seat is for a person, so put your bag on your lap or the floor when the bus is busy.

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**Who acts:** seat, bus · **What happens:** be, put · **To what, where:** bag, lap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 (seat, bus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:10
# text = A seat is for a person, so put your bag on your lap or the floor when the bus is busy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 225-public-transport-and-borrowing.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **is** | present | a seat |  |  |  |  | for a person | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | your bag |  | your lap or the floor |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on lap=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | the bus |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |

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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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:10`.

**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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