--- title: On a pavement next to a busy road, a small child can suddenly dart t… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics description: On a pavement next to a busy road, a small child can suddenly dart towards the road, so an older child holds his hand and walks on the side nearer the traffic, keeping him on the side away from the cars. Who acts: small child, older child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small child, older child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:0 # text = On a pavement next to a busy road, a small child can suddenly dart towards the road, so an older child holds his hand and walks on the side nearer the traffic, keeping him on the side away from the cars. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.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 ×3 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 4 next next ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 dart dart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 towards towards ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dart** | can | a small child | | | a pavement | | towards the road; suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards road=Destination | | 2 | **hold** | present | a older child | child's hand | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | present | a older child *not said here* | the traffic | | the side | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | gerund | a older child *not said here* | child | | the side | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on side=Location | 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. **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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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. 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