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title: Drivers turning at corners are watching other cars and may not see a… — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: Drivers turning at corners are watching other cars and may not see a child on the crossing. Who acts: Drivers. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Traffic lights, crossings and road signs, sentence 20

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Drivers turning at corners are watching other cars and may not see a child on the crossing.

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**Who acts:** Drivers · **What happens:** turn, watch, not see · **To what, where:** corners, other cars, child, crossing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» 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 (Drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:20
# text = Drivers turning at corners are watching other cars and may not see a child on the crossing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 267-traffic-lights-and-signs.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **turn** | gerund | Drivers *not said here* |  |  | corners |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at corner=Trajectory |
| 2 | **watch** | present · progressive | Drivers | other cars |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | may | Drivers *not said here* | a child |  | the crossing |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=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:267-traffic-lights-and-signs.lesson:20`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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