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title: When walking a small child beside a busy road, hold their hand and k… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics
description: When walking a small child beside a busy road, hold their hand and keep them on the side away from the traffic. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 6

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When walking a small child beside a busy road, hold their hand and keep them on the side away from the traffic.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** walk, hold, keep · **To what, where:** small child, busy road, hand, eyebrows, side

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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 (you), 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:6
# text = When walking a small child beside a busy road, hold their hand and keep them on the side away from the traffic.
# 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 ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	2	mark	_	_
2	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* | a small child |  | a busy road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent child=Theme beside road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | eyebrows's hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | eyebrows *= eyebrow* |  | the side |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on side=Location |

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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: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): R5-strong ×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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