--- title: Never walk on a motorway; if a car breaks down, everyone gets out on… — Roads and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: Never walk on a motorway; if a car breaks down, everyone gets out on the side away from the traffic and waits behind the barrier. Who acts: you, car, everyone. 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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 (you, car, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:12 # text = Never walk on a motorway; if a car breaks down, everyone gets out on the side away from the traffic and waits behind the barrier. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 031-roads-and-road-signs.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 ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 motorway motorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 11 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 behind behind ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 barrier barrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | a motorway | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on motorway=Trajectory | | 2 | **break down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a car | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **get out** | present | everyone | | | the side | | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wait** | present | everyone *not said here* | | | the barrier | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind barrier=Location | 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:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:12`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Roads and road signs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/11/) - next →: [Roads and road signs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/)