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title: Many children are hit on crossings by drivers who did not stop, whic… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many children are hit on crossings by drivers who did not stop, which is why you wait until cars really have stopped. Who acts: drivers, you, cars. A sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 21

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Many children are hit on crossings by drivers who did not stop, which is why you wait until cars really have stopped.

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**Who acts:** drivers, you, cars · **What happens:** hit, not stop, be, wait, stop · **To what, where:** Many children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» 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 (drivers, you, cars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:21
# text = Many children are hit on crossings by drivers who did not stop, which is why you wait until cars really have stopped.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.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 ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	crossings	crossing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl:relcl	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | present · passive | drivers | Many children |  |  |  | on crossings | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument on crossing=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | drivers |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | present · perfect | cars |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:21`.

**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 ×2. **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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