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title: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand traffic drives on the… — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand traffic drives on the left, so the nearest cars come from the right. Who acts: traffic, nearest cars. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 15

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In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand traffic drives on the left, so the nearest cars come from the right.

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**Who acts:** traffic, nearest cars · **What happens:** drive, come · **To what, where:** UK, right

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday 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 (traffic, nearest cars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:011-eyes-up.lesson:15
# text = In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand traffic drives on the left, so the nearest cars come from the right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 011-eyes-up.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
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	12	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | present | traffic |  |  | the UK and Ireland and Australia and New Zealand |  | on the left | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in uk=Destination on left=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | the nearest cars |  |  | the right |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial\_Location |

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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:everyday:011-eyes-up.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): R8-pos-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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