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title: A family makes a plan before travelling in case they get separated,… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics
description: A family makes a plan before travelling in case they get separated, such as getting off at the next station and waiting on the platform, or staying on and telling staff. Who acts: family. A sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w
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# Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 7

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A family makes a plan before travelling in case they get separated, such as getting off at the next station and waiting on the platform, or staying on and telling staff.

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**Who acts:** family · **What happens:** make, travel, separate, get off, wait, stay on · **To what, where:** plan, case, trains, next station, platform, staff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» 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 (family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:7
# text = A family makes a plan before travelling in case they get separated, such as getting off at the next station and waiting on the platform, or staying on and telling staff.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 270-trains-and-subways.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
33	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a family | a plan |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund | a family *not said here* |  |  | case |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in case=Trajectory |
| 3 | **separate** | present · passive |  | trains *= train* |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **get off** | gerund |  |  |  | the next station |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  | the platform |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on platform=Location |
| 6 | **stay on** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | staff |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient |

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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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**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): no change. **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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