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title: It lets thousands of people meet the same bus without phoning each o… — Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: It lets thousands of people meet the same bus without phoning each other. Who acts: lunch, thousands, same bus. A sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day, sentence 1

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It lets thousands of people meet the same bus without phoning each other.

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**Who acts:** lunch, thousands, same bus · **What happens:** let, meet, phone · **To what, where:** thousands, same bus, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world 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 (lunch, thousands, same bus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:1
# text = It lets thousands of people meet the same bus without phoning each other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	phoning	phone	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obj	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** | present | lunch | thousands of people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | infinitive | thousands of people *not said here* | the same bus |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **phone** | gerund | the same bus *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient |

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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:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.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): 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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