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title: When the way is blocked, the safe choice is to turn back or find a w… — Hiking and camping safely · tree and pragmatics
description: When the way is blocked, the safe choice is to turn back or find a way round. Who acts: safe choice. A sentence of the lesson «Hiking and camping safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hiking and camping safely, sentence 3

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When the way is blocked, the safe choice is to turn back or find a way round.

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**Who acts:** safe choice · **What happens:** block, be, find · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiking and camping safely» 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 (safe choice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:230-hiking-and-camping.lesson:3
# text = When the way is blocked, the safe choice is to turn back or find a way round.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 230-hiking-and-camping.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	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **block** | present · passive |  | the way |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the safe choice |  |  |  |  | turn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive | the safe choice *not said here* | a way |  |  |  | round *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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:230-hiking-and-camping.lesson:3`.

**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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