--- title: Coming in when the street lights come on is a promise to the people… — Going where you're not allowed · tree and pragmatics description: Coming in when the street lights come on is a promise to the people waiting for you. Who acts: street lights, Coming, people. A sentence of the lesson «Going where you're not allowed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Going where you're not allowed](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/) / 21 # Going where you're not allowed, sentence 21 Coming in when the street lights come on is a promise to the people waiting for you. **Who acts:** street lights, Coming, people · **What happens:** come in, come on, be, wait · **To what, where:** promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Going where you're not allowed» 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 (street lights, Coming, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.lesson:21 # text = Coming in when the street lights come on is a promise to the people waiting for you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 2 in in ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 on on ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come in** | gerund | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come on** | present | the street lights | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** *speech: promise* | present | Coming | a promise | | | | to the people | tree rules | | 4 | **wait** | gerund | the people *not said here* | | | | | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Going where you're not allowed, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/20/) - next →: [Going where you're not allowed, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/)