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title: Petrol stations still ask people not to use phones at the pump, and… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Petrol stations still ask people not to use phones at the pump, and you should follow their rules; a phone also distracts people near fuel and cars. Who acts: Petrol stations, you, phone, stations. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths course of Mova'
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# Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 9

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Petrol stations still ask people not to use phones at the pump, and you should follow their rules; a phone also distracts people near fuel and cars.

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**Who acts:** Petrol stations, you, phone, stations · **What happens:** ask, not use, follow, distract, rule · **To what, where:** people, phones, pump, rules, fuel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (Petrol stations, you, phone, stations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:9
# text = Petrol stations still ask people not to use phones at the pump, and you should follow their rules; a phone also distracts people near fuel and cars.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp
9	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pump	pump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	distracts	distract	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Petrol stations |  | people |  | still |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Petrol stations *not said here* | phones |  | the pump |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | should | you | stations's rules |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 4 | **distract** | present | a phone | people |  | fuel and cars |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 5 | **rule** |  | stations *= station* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:9`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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