--- title: Drivers cannot always see you: a car reversing out of a driveway may… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: Drivers cannot always see you: a car reversing out of a driveway may not see a child behind it, and a car in the next lane may not see you behind a car that has stopped. Who acts: Drivers, car. 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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 (Drivers, car), 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:2 # text = Drivers cannot always see you: a car reversing out of a driveway may not see a child behind it, and a car in the next lane may not see you behind a car that has stopped. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 10 reversing reverse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 driveway driveway NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 behind behind ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 lane lane NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 behind behind ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | can | Drivers | you | | | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 2 | **reverse out** | gerund | a car *not said here* | a driveway | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent driveway=Patient | | 3 | **not** **see** | may | a car | a child | | | | behind child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **see** | may | a car in the next lane | you | | a car | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **stop** | present · perfect | a car | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:2`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/1/) - next →: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/)