--- title: A bend or the top of a hill hides cars from you, and hides you from… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: A bend or the top of a hill hides cars from you, and hides you from drivers, so it is a bad place to cross. Who acts: bend, car. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» 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/41-crossing-the-road/16/) [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/) / [Crossing the road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/) / 16 # Crossing the road, sentence 16 A bend or the top of a hill hides cars from you, and hides you from drivers, so it is a bad place to cross. **Who acts:** bend, car · **What happens:** hide, be, cross · **To what, where:** cars, you, bad place This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» 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 (bend, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:16 # text = A bend or the top of a hill hides cars from you, and hides you from drivers, so it is a bad place to cross. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 041-crossing-the-road.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bend bend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | a bend or the top of a hill | cars | | | | from you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent car=Patient from you=Beneficiary | | 2 | **hide** | present | a bend or the top of a hill *not said here* | you | | | | from drivers | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient from driver=Beneficiary | | 3 | **is a** | present | car | a bad place | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | a bend or the top of a hill *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Crossing the road, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/15/) - next →: [Crossing the road, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/)