--- title: A small child next to a busy road is held by the hand and kept on th… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: A small child next to a busy road is held by the hand and kept on the side away from the traffic, because small children can dart into the road. Who acts: hand, small children. 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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 (hand, small children), 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:4 # text = A small child next to a busy road is held by the hand and kept on the side away from the traffic, because small children can dart into the road. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 next next ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:agent _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 dart dart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present · passive | the hand | a small child | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | participle | the hand *not said here* | | | the side | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 3 | **dart** | can | small children | | | the road | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination | 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:4`. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/3/) - next →: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/)