--- title: In the UK you can start learning to drive at seventeen and must pass… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK you can start learning to drive at seventeen and must pass a theory test and a practical test; L plates show a learner. Who acts: you, L plates. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, L plates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:17 # text = In the UK you can start learning to drive at seventeen and must pass a theory test and a practical test; L plates show a learner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 pass pass VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 theory theory NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 practical practical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 L L PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 learner learner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | can | you | | | the UK | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **learn** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **drive** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | seventeen | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pass** | must | you *not said here* | a theory test and a practical test | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory | | 5 | **show** | present | L plates | a learner | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent learner=Recipient | 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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Money, work and the big choices, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/16/) - next →: [Money, work and the big choices, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/)