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title: A rolling shopping trolley or cart is stopped by an adult, and child… — Bikes, scooters and car parks · tree and pragmatics
description: A rolling shopping trolley or cart is stopped by an adult, and children never ride on trolleys, because they can tip over and hit cars. Who acts: adult, children. A sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Bikes, scooters and car parks, sentence 14

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A rolling shopping trolley or cart is stopped by an adult, and children never ride on trolleys, because they can tip over and hit cars.

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**Who acts:** adult, children · **What happens:** roll, stop, not ride, tip over, hit · **To what, where:** rolling shopping trolley, trolleys, cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» 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 (adult, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.lesson:14
# text = A rolling shopping trolley or cart is stopped by an adult, and children never ride on trolleys, because they can tip over and hit cars.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trolley	trolley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	trolleys	trolley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	tip	tip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present · passive | a adult | a rolling shopping trolley or cart |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **ride** | present | children |  |  | trolleys |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tip over** | can | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hit** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | cars |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme |

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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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**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:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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