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title: Small children can dart into the road without warning, so hold a lit… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small children can dart into the road without warning, so hold a little brother's hand and keep him on the side away from the traffic. Who acts: Small children, road. A sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 7

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Small children can dart into the road without warning, so hold a little brother's hand and keep him on the side away from the traffic.

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**Who acts:** Small children, road · **What happens:** dart, warn, hold, keep · **To what, where:** road, hand, child, side

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 (Small children, road), 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:7
# text = Small children can dart into the road without warning, so hold a little brother's hand and keep him on the side away from the traffic.
# 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 ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dart	dart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	warning	warn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **dart** | can | Small children |  |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | gerund | the road *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive |  | a little brother's hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive |  | child |  | the side |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=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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**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.

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