--- title: A speed camera photographs cars going over the limit, and the driver… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A speed camera photographs cars going over the limit, and the driver must pay a fine and may get points on their licence. Who acts: speed camera, cars, driver, drivers. A sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Police, courts and prison](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/) / 15 # Police, courts and prison, sentence 15 A speed camera photographs cars going over the limit, and the driver must pay a fine and may get points on their licence. **Who acts:** speed camera, cars, driver, drivers · **What happens:** photograph, go, pay, get, licence · **To what, where:** cars, limit, fine, points, licence This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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 (speed camera, cars, driver, drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:15 # text = A speed camera photographs cars going over the limit, and the driver must pay a fine and may get points on their licence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 030-police-courts-and-prison.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 photographs photograph VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fine fine NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 licence licence NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **photograph** | present | a speed camera | cars | | | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | | 2 | **go** | gerund | cars *not said here* | | | the limit | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over limit=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **pay** | must | the driver | a fine | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset | | 4 | **get** | may | the driver *not said here* | points | | drivers's licence | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent point=Theme on licence=Source | | 5 | **licence** | | drivers *= driver* | | | | | | nom licence «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/13/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)