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title: Wait for the bus to stop before getting on, never run after a moving… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait for the bus to stop before getting on, never run after a moving bus, and never cross right in front of a bus, because the driver cannot see small children close to the front; after getting off, wait until the bus has gone so you can see the road clearly before crossing. Who acts: you, bus, driv
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# Road and railway safety, sentence 16

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Wait for the bus to stop before getting on, never run after a moving bus, and never cross right in front of a bus, because the driver cannot see small children close to the front; after getting off, wait until the bus has gone so you can see the road clearly before crossing.

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**Who acts:** you, bus, driver · **What happens:** wait, stop, get on, not run, move, not cross · **To what, where:** front, small children, road

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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 (you, bus, driver), 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:16
# text = Wait for the bus to stop before getting on, never run after a moving bus, and never cross right in front of a bus, because the driver cannot see small children close to the front; after getting off, wait until the bus has gone so you can see the road clearly before crossing.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	cross	cross	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	advcl	_	_
43	off	off	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
46	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
51	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
58	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
59	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	advcl	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the bus |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get on** | gerund | the bus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **run** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | after a moving bus |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **cross** | infinitive |  |  |  | front of a bus |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **see** | can | the driver | small children |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 8 | **get off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **go** | present · perfect | the bus |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **see** | can | you | the road |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
| 12 | **cross** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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: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 ×2. **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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