--- title: If you drop something in the road while crossing, you leave it and f… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: If you drop something in the road while crossing, you leave it and finish crossing, then get it later when it is safe or ask an adult. Who acts: you, road. 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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 (you, road), 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:14 # text = If you drop something in the road while crossing, you leave it and finish crossing, then get it later when it is safe or ask an adult. # 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 ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | something | | the road | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme in road=Destination | | 2 | **cross** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | present | you | road | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **finish** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **cross** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | road | | | then | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | present | road | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/13/) - next →: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/)