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title: Rules like "walk, don't run" exist so people don't crash into each o… — The rumour that grows · tree and pragmatics
description: Rules like "walk, don't run" exist so people don't crash into each other in corridors. Who acts: Rules, people. A sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The rumour that grows, sentence 22

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Rules like "walk, don't run" exist so people don't crash into each other in corridors.

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**Who acts:** Rules, people · **What happens:** walk, not run, exist, not crash · **To what, where:** each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» 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 (Rules, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:22
# text = Rules like "walk, don't run" exist so people don't crash into each other in corridors.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 167-the-rumour-that-grows.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	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	crash	crash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	15	obl	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive | Rules *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **run** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **exist** | present | Rules |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **crash** | present · do-support | people |  |  |  |  | into each *result*; in corridors | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into each=Result |

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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:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:22`.

**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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