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title: People looking at phones while crossing miss cars they would otherwi… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics
description: People looking at phones while crossing miss cars they would otherwise have seen. Who acts: People, cars. A sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 21

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People looking at phones while crossing miss cars they would otherwise have seen.

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**Who acts:** People, cars · **What happens:** look, crossing, miss, see · **To what, where:** cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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 (People, 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:21
# text = People looking at phones while crossing miss cars they would otherwise have seen.
# 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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	crossing	crossing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
7	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **look** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at phones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme |
| 2 | **crossing** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **miss** | present | People | cars |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | would · perfect | cars *= car* | cars *not said here* |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus |

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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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:21`.

**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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