--- title: That is why you never pick up something you dropped near the bus — y… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics description: That is why you never pick up something you dropped near the bus — you tell the driver first — and you cross only when the bus has left and you can see the road clearly. Who acts: That, you, bus. 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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 (That, you, bus), 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:2 # text = That is why you never pick up something you dropped near the bus — you tell the driver first — and you cross only when the bus has left and you can see the road clearly. # 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 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 near near ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:iobj 19 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 advmod _ _ 20 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **pick up** | present | you | something | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 3 | **drop** | past | you | | | the bus | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near bus=Trajectory | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | the driver | | | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient | | 5 | **cross** | present | you | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | present · perfect | the bus | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** | can | you | the road | | | | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/1/) - next →: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/)