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title: The coloured paint marks that workers spray on the pavement before r… — Tunnels and what lies under the street · tree and pragmatics
description: The coloured paint marks that workers spray on the pavement before roadworks are a map of that hidden city, showing where pipes and cables run, so the diggers do not hit them. Who acts: workers, coloured paint marks, map, pipes. A sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» of th
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# Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 2

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The coloured paint marks that workers spray on the pavement before roadworks are a map of that hidden city, showing where pipes and cables run, so the diggers do not hit them.

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**Who acts:** workers, coloured paint marks, map, pipes, diggers · **What happens:** colour, spray, be, show, run, not hit · **To what, where:** coloured paint marks, pavement, map, pipes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 (workers, coloured paint marks, map, pipes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:2
# text = The coloured paint marks that workers spray on the pavement before roadworks are a map of that hidden city, showing where pipes and cables run, so the diggers do not hit them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spray	spray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	roadworks	roadwork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
23	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	diggers	digger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **colour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spray** | present | workers | the coloured paint marks |  | the pavement | before roadworks |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme on pavement=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the coloured paint marks | a map |  |  |  | of that hidden city | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | a map *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **run** | present | pipes and cables |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **hit** | present · do-support | the diggers | pipes *= pipe* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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