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title: Where there is no pavement, you walk facing the oncoming traffic, so… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics
description: Where there is no pavement, you walk facing the oncoming traffic, so you can see it coming. Who acts: pavement, 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.
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# Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 18

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Where there is no pavement, you walk facing the oncoming traffic, so you can see it coming.

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**Who acts:** pavement, you · **What happens:** be, walk, face, see, come · **To what, where:** oncoming traffic

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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 (pavement, 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:18
# text = Where there is no pavement, you walk facing the oncoming traffic, so you can see it coming.
# 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): no change
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
9	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	oncoming	oncom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no pavement |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **face** | gerund | you *not said here* | the oncoming traffic |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme traffic=Destination |
| 4 | **see** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | pavement |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:18`.

**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): no change. **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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