--- title: Carsickness gets better by looking out of the front window at the ho… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics description: Carsickness gets better by looking out of the front window at the horizon and getting fresh air; reading or looking at a screen makes it worse. Who acts: Carsickness, reading. 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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 (Carsickness, reading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:11 # text = Carsickness gets better by looking out of the front window at the horizon and getting fresh air; reading or looking at a screen makes it worse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.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 Carsickness carsickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 horizon horizon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 16 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Carsickness | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **look out** | gerund | Carsickness *not said here* | the front window | | the horizon | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | gerund | Carsickness *not said here* | fresh air | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus | | 4 | **read** | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | at a screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | reading | air | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/10/) - next →: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/)