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title: For the same distance, flying on a big airline is much safer than go… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics
description: For the same distance, flying on a big airline is much safer than going by car. Who acts: flying. A sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 10

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For the same distance, flying on a big airline is much safer than going by car.

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**Who acts:** flying · **What happens:** fly, be, go · **To what, where:** big airline

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» 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 (flying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:10
# text = For the same distance, flying on a big airline is much safer than going by car.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  | a big airline |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on airline=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | flying |  |  |  |  | for the same distance; safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | flying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by car | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by car=Location |

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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:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:10`.

**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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