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title: A learner driver has L plates and a grown-up beside them; check befo… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics
description: A learner driver has L plates and a grown-up beside them; check before you accuse anyone of breaking the law. Who acts: learner driver, you. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 16

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A learner driver has L plates and a grown-up beside them; check before you accuse anyone of breaking the law.

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**Who acts:** learner driver, you · **What happens:** have, check, accuse, break · **To what, where:** L plates, anyone, law

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» 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 (learner driver, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:16
# text = A learner driver has L plates and a grown-up beside them; check before you accuse anyone of breaking the law.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	learner	learner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	L	l	NOUN	NN	_	6	compound	_	_
6	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound
12	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
15	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	accuse	accuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a learner driver | L plates and grown beside plates |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 2 | **check** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accuse** | present | you | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | gerund |  | the law |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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