--- title: On a narrow pavement friends walk in a line and step aside for prams… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: On a narrow pavement friends walk in a line and step aside for prams, wheelchairs, canes and walking frames, and pass slowly and politely, saying excuse me. Who acts: friends. 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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 (friends), 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:9 # text = On a narrow pavement friends walk in a line and step aside for prams, wheelchairs, canes and walking frames, and pass slowly and politely, saying excuse me. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 aside aside ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 prams pram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wheelchairs wheelchair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 canes cane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 21 frames frame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 pass pass VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 politely politely ADV RB _ 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 30 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | friends | | | a narrow pavement | | in a line | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pavement=Trajectory | | 2 | **step** | infinitive | friends *not said here* | | | | | for prams and wheelchairs and canes and walking frames; aside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | infinitive | friends *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | friends *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **excuse** | infinitive | friends *not said here* | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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