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title: So Uncle Paul drives five hours to feel safe and picks the riskier t… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics
description: So Uncle Paul drives five hours to feel safe and picks the riskier trip. Who acts: Uncle. 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 4

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So Uncle Paul drives five hours to feel safe and picks the riskier trip.

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**Who acts:** Uncle · **What happens:** drive, feel, pick · **To what, where:** riskier trip

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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 (Uncle), 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:4
# text = So Uncle Paul drives five hours to feel safe and picks the riskier trip.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Uncle	uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	riskier	risky	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **drive** | present | Uncle |  |  |  | hour |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Uncle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pick** | present | Uncle *not said here* | the riskier trip |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Patient |

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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:4`.

**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/).

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