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title: Rules about riding on the pavement differ by country and town; where… — Bikes, scooters and car parks · tree and pragmatics
description: Rules about riding on the pavement differ by country and town; where children may, they watch out for people walking. Who acts: Rules, children, 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 pragmatic
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# Bikes, scooters and car parks, sentence 6

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Rules about riding on the pavement differ by country and town; where children may, they watch out for people walking.

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**Who acts:** Rules, children, people · **What happens:** differ, watch out, walk

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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 (Rules, children, 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:6
# text = Rules about riding on the pavement differ by country and town; where children may, they watch out for people walking.
# 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
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **differ** | present | Rules about riding on the pavement |  |  |  |  | by country and town | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch out** | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for people | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for people=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R7-rel-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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