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title: You let passengers get off a train or bus before you get on. — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics
description: You let passengers get off a train or bus before you get on. Who acts: You, passengers. 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.
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# Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 15

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You let passengers get off a train or bus before you get on.

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**Who acts:** You, passengers · **What happens:** let, get off, get on · **To what, where:** train

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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, passengers), 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:15
# text = You let passengers get off a train or bus before you get on.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **let** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get off** | infinitive | passengers | a train or bus |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get on** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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:15`.

**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 ×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/).

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