--- title: On a moving bus you stay seated, or hold on tight if you must stand. — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics description: On a moving bus you stay seated, or hold on tight if you must stand. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» 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/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/12/) [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/) / [Buses, trains and being seen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/) / 12 # Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 12 On a moving bus you stay seated, or hold on tight if you must stand. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** move, stay, seat, hold on, stand · **To what, where:** moving bus This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» 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 (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:12 # text = On a moving bus you stay seated, or hold on tight if you must stand. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 on on ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 tight tight ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stay** | present | you | | | a moving bus | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seat** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 4 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | tight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | you | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:12`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Buses, trains and being seen, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/11/) - next →: [Buses, trains and being seen, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/)