--- title: Many cities are trying car-free centres, more bikes and more trees t… — Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every… · tree and pragmatics description: Many cities are trying car-free centres, more bikes and more trees to cool hot streets; some people like it, others worry about shops and getting around, so it is debated. Who acts: Many cities, people, others. 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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 (Many cities, people, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:16 # text = Many cities are trying car-free centres, more bikes and more trees to cool hot streets; some people like it, others worry about shops and getting around, so it is debated. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 centres centre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 bikes bike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 17 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 worry worry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 parataxis _ _ 31 around around ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 debated debate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present · progressive | Many cities | free centres and more bikes and more trees | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Eventuality | | 2 | **cool** | to-infinitive | Many cities *not said here* | hot streets | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent street=Patient | | 3 | **like** | present | some people | city | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **worry** | present | others | | | | | about shops | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about shop=Stimulus | | 5 | **get around** | gerund | | | | | | around *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **debate** | present · passive | | city | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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. 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