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title: Rushing because you are late is when many children run into roads wi… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: Rushing because you are late is when many children run into roads without looking, so missing a bus is better than being hit. Who acts: you, many children. A sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 22

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Rushing because you are late is when many children run into roads without looking, so missing a bus is better than being hit.

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**Who acts:** you, many children · **What happens:** rush, be, look, miss, hit · **To what, where:** roads, bus

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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, many children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:22
# text = Rushing because you are late is when many children run into roads without looking, so missing a bus is better than being hit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	ccomp	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | many children |  |  | roads |  | run *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | many children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **miss** | gerund | many children *not said here* | a bus |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | present | many children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hit** | gerund · passive | many children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |

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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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:22`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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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