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title: Speed limits exist because faster cars cause worse accidents, especi… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics
description: Speed limits exist because faster cars cause worse accidents, especially near schools and homes. Who acts: Speed limits, faster cars. A sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Police, courts and prison, sentence 16

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Speed limits exist because faster cars cause worse accidents, especially near schools and homes.

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**Who acts:** Speed limits, faster cars · **What happens:** exist, cause · **To what, where:** worse accidents, schools

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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 limits, faster cars), 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:16
# text = Speed limits exist because faster cars cause worse accidents, especially near schools and homes.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | Speed limits |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | present | faster cars | worse accidents |  | schools and homes |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2. **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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