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title: A girl in Melbourne rides on a shared path; she rings her bell well… — Bikes, scooters and car parks · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Melbourne rides on a shared path; she rings her bell well before the people walking and passes them slowly. Who acts: girl, people. 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 pragmatics of every 
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# Bikes, scooters and car parks, sentence 4

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A girl in Melbourne rides on a shared path; she rings her bell well before the people walking and passes them slowly.

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**Who acts:** girl, people · **What happens:** ride, share, ring, walk, pass · **To what, where:** shared path, bell, people

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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 (girl, people), 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:4
# text = A girl in Melbourne rides on a shared path; she rings her bell well before the people walking and passes them slowly.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **ride** | present | a girl in Melbourne |  |  | a shared path |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ring** | present | girl | girl's bell |  |  | before the people |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | present | the people *not said here* | people |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |

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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:4`.

**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): R6-punct-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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