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title: You press the stop button or pull the cord before your stop, because… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics
description: You press the stop button or pull the cord before your stop, because the driver will not stop unless someone asks. Who acts: You, driver, someone, your. A sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 10

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You press the stop button or pull the cord before your stop, because the driver will not stop unless someone asks.

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**Who acts:** You, driver, someone, your · **What happens:** press, pull, not stop, ask, stop · **To what, where:** stop button, cord

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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 (You, driver, someone, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:10
# text = You press the stop button or pull the cord before your stop, because the driver will not stop unless someone asks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 269-school-buses-and-public-buses.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | present | You | the stop button |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | You *not said here* | the cord |  |  | before your stop |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | future | the driver |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stop** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom stop «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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