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title: Almost every road rule for children comes from those two facts: give… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost every road rule for children comes from those two facts: give machines room, and make sure you are seen. Who acts: road rule. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Road and railway safety, sentence 1

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Almost every road rule for children comes from those two facts: give machines room, and make sure you are seen.

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**Who acts:** road rule · **What happens:** come, give, make, see · **To what, where:** two facts, machines, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» 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 (road rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:1
# text = Almost every road rule for children comes from those two facts: give machines room, and make sure you are seen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 027-road-and-railway-safety.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	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come** | present | every road rule for children |  |  | that two facts |  | almost *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fact=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | every road rule for children *not said here* | machines |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent machine=Recipient room=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | every road rule for children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **see** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:1`.

**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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