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title: Never run across a road in front of cars; traffic can kill in a seco… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics
description: Never run across a road in front of cars; traffic can kill in a second. Who acts: you, traffic. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 19

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Never run across a road in front of cars; traffic can kill in a second.

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**Who acts:** you, traffic · **What happens:** not run, kill · **To what, where:** road

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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 (you, traffic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:19
# text = Never run across a road in front of cars; traffic can kill in a second.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a road |  | in front of cars | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **kill** | can | traffic |  |  |  | second |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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