--- title: Using a phone while driving causes many crashes and is against the l… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics description: Using a phone while driving causes many crashes and is against the law in many places, and a child may kindly remind a parent. Who acts: Using, child. 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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 (Using, child), 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:12 # text = Using a phone while driving causes many crashes and is against the law in many places, and a child may kindly remind a parent. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 crashes crash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 against against ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 remind remind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | a phone | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient | | 2 | **drive** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cause** | present | Using | many crashes | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition crash=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | Using *not said here* | | | many places | | against the law | tree rules | | 5 | **remind** *speech: other* | may | a child | | a parent | | | kindly *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | 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:12`. **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: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/11/) - next →: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/)