--- title: Nobody goes near a helicopter until the crew says so, because its bl… — Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody goes near a helicopter until the crew says so, because its blades spin too fast to see; air ambulances can land in fields and on hospital roofs. Who acts: Nobody, crew, blades, air ambulances. 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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 (Nobody, crew, blades, air ambulances), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:16 # text = Nobody goes near a helicopter until the crew says so, because its blades spin too fast to see; air ambulances can land in fields and on hospital roofs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 near near ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 helicopter helicopter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 until until SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 ambulances ambulance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Nobody | | | a helicopter | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near helicopter=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the crew | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spin** | present | helicopter's blades | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | helicopter's blades *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **land** | can | air ambulances | | | fields and hospital roofs | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in field=Destination | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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