--- title: The pavement (the sidewalk in the USA and Canada) is shared by every… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: The pavement (the sidewalk in the USA and Canada) is shared by everyone, and the road beside it belongs to fast, heavy cars that need many metres to stop. Who acts: everyone, fast heavy cars. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, fast heavy cars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:0 # text = The pavement (the sidewalk in the USA and Canada) is shared by everyone, and the road beside it belongs to fast, heavy cars that need many metres to stop. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sidewalk sidewalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 obl:agent _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 beside beside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 22 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl 23 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 24 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | present · passive | everyone | the pavement | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **belong** | present | everyone *not said here* | | | | | to fast heavy cars; beside *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | fast heavy cars | many metres | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | fast heavy cars *not said here* | many metres *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Holidays of the region, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/20/) - next →: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/)