--- title: On the top deck of a double-decker you stay seated and hold the rail… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics description: On the top deck of a double-decker you stay seated and hold the rail on the stairs, because the stairs move with the bus. Who acts: you, stairs. 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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, stairs), 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:14 # text = On the top deck of a double-decker you stay seated and hold the rail on the stairs, because the stairs move with the bus. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 decker decker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj 11 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | you | | | the top deck of a double decker | | | tree rules | | 2 | **seat** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 3 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the rail | | the stairs | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rail=Theme on stair=Location | | 4 | **move** | present | the stairs | | | | | with the bus | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.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 ×4. **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: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/13/) - next →: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/)