--- title: If you drop something near the school bus, you never bend down to pi… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics description: If you drop something near the school bus, you never bend down to pick it up; you tell the driver first, because the driver may not see you. Who acts: you, driver. 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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, driver), 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:6 # text = If you drop something near the school bus, you never bend down to pick it up; you tell the driver first, because the driver may not see you. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:iobj 23 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | you | something | | the school bus | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme near bus=Destination | | 2 | **not** **bend down** | present | you | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | bus | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 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 | **not** **see** | may | the driver | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:6`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/5/) - next →: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/)