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title: Electric cars and bikes can be very quiet at low speeds, so you must… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics
description: Electric cars and bikes can be very quiet at low speeds, so you must look as well as listen. Who acts: Electric cars, you. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking about noticing, sentence 17

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Electric cars and bikes can be very quiet at low speeds, so you must look as well as listen.

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**Who acts:** Electric cars, you · **What happens:** be, look, listen · **To what, where:** low speeds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» 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 (Electric cars, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:17
# text = Electric cars and bikes can be very quiet at low speeds, so you must look as well as listen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 020-noticing-like-a-cat.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	Electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bikes	bike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	speeds	speed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | can | Electric cars and bikes |  |  | low speeds |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.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/).

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