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title: Headphones and phones hide the sound of cars, bikes and trains, and… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Headphones and phones hide the sound of cars, bikes and trains, and electric cars are especially quiet; take headphones off and put the phone away when crossing. Who acts: Headphones, electric cars. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primary school 
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# Road and railway safety, sentence 19

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Headphones and phones hide the sound of cars, bikes and trains, and electric cars are especially quiet; take headphones off and put the phone away when crossing.

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**Who acts:** Headphones, electric cars · **What happens:** hide, be, take off, put away, cross · **To what, where:** sound, headphones, phone

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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 (Headphones, electric cars), 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:19
# text = Headphones and phones hide the sound of cars, bikes and trains, and electric cars are especially quiet; take headphones off and put the phone away when 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): no change
1	Headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bikes	bike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Headphones and phones | the sound of cars and bikes and trains |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | electric cars |  |  |  |  | especially, quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take off** | infinitive |  | headphones |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme |
| 4 | **put away** | infinitive |  | the phone |  |  |  | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal |
| 5 | **cross** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:19`.

**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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