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title: Tapping a card or phone on a bus reader pays the fare by a short rad… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics
description: Tapping a card or phone on a bus reader pays the fare by a short radio signal; the card has a tiny antenna coil inside. Who acts: Tapping, card. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 16

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Tapping a card or phone on a bus reader pays the fare by a short radio signal; the card has a tiny antenna coil inside.

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**Who acts:** Tapping, card · **What happens:** tap, pay, have · **To what, where:** card, fare, tiny antenna coil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology 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 (Tapping, card), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:16
# text = Tapping a card or phone on a bus reader pays the fare by a short radio signal; the card has a tiny antenna coil inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Tapping	tap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	antenna	antenna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	coil	coil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **tap** | gerund |  | a card or phone |  |  |  | on a bus reader | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent card=Instrument on reader=Patient |
| 2 | **pay** | present | Tapping | the fare |  |  |  | by a short radio signal | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fare=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | present | the card | a tiny antenna coil |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Patient |

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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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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