--- title: You buy a ticket before boarding or use the right card, and keep it… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics description: You buy a ticket before boarding or use the right card, and keep it for checking, because travelling without one can mean a fine. Who acts: You, card, travelling. 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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, card, travelling), 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:8 # text = You buy a ticket before boarding or use the right card, and keep it for checking, because travelling without one can mean a fine. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 buy buy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ticket ticket NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 boarding board VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 24 mark _ _ 20 travelling travelling VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 21 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | present | You | a ticket | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme | | 2 | **board** | gerund | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | You *not said here* | the right card | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present | You *not said here* | card | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **check** | gerund | card *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **travelling** | gerund | | | | | | without one | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | can | travelling | a fine | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Topic | 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:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/7/) - next →: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/)