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title: A car going at speed needs many metres to stop, even when the driver… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics
description: A car going at speed needs many metres to stop, even when the driver has seen you. Who acts: car, driver. A sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 16

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A car going at speed needs many metres to stop, even when the driver has seen you.

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**Who acts:** car, driver · **What happens:** go, need, stop, see · **To what, where:** speed, many metres, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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 (car, driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:16
# text = A car going at speed needs many metres to stop, even when the driver has seen you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **go** | gerund | a car *not said here* |  |  | speed |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
| 2 | **need** | present | a car | many metres |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a car *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **see** | present · perfect | the driver | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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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