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title: Passengers scan their cards or QR codes on phone when boarding the b… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: Passengers scan their cards or QR codes on phone when boarding the bus, where the price ticket is subtracted from the available balance. Who acts: Passengers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 332

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From Wikipedia, [«Amman»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Passengers scan their cards or QR codes on phone when boarding the bus, where the price ticket is subtracted from the available balance.

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**Who acts:** Passengers · **What happens:** scan, board, subtract · **To what, where:** cards, phone, bus, price ticket

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amman». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Passengers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Amman:332
# text = Passengers scan their cards or QR codes on phone when boarding the bus, where the price ticket is subtracted from the available balance.
1	Passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scan	scan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	QR	QR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	boarding	board	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	subtracted	subtract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scan** | present | Passengers | passengers's cards or QR codes |  | phone |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 2 | **board** | gerund | Passengers *not said here* | the bus |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bus=Location |
| 3 | **subtract** | present · passive |  | the price ticket |  |  |  | from the available balance | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme from balance=Co-Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Amman», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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