--- title: Getting on and off buses and trains is a time when children are clos… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics description: Getting on and off buses and trains is a time when children are close to big vehicles whose drivers cannot see everything, so you wait well back until the vehicle has stopped. Who acts: Getting, children, drivers, you. 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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 (Getting, children, drivers, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:0 # text = Getting on and off buses and trains is a time when children are close to big vehicles whose drivers cannot see everything, so you wait well back until the vehicle has stopped. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 off off ADP IN _ 2 conj _ _ 5 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 vehicles vehicle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 28 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 29 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 vehicle vehicle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | buses and trains | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | Getting | a time | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | children | | | | | to big vehicles; close *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **see** | can | drivers | everything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 5 | **wait** | present | you | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | present · perfect · passive | | the vehicle | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | 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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/19/) - next →: [Buses, trains and being seen, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/)