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title: Lorry and truck drivers have big blind spots beside their cab, where… — Bikes, scooters and car parks · tree and pragmatics
description: Lorry and truck drivers have big blind spots beside their cab, where they cannot see a cyclist at all. Who acts: Lorry drivers, Drivers. A sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Bikes, scooters and car parks, sentence 20

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Lorry and truck drivers have big blind spots beside their cab, where they cannot see a cyclist at all.

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**Who acts:** Lorry drivers, Drivers · **What happens:** have, not see · **To what, where:** big blind spots, cab, cyclist, all

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» 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 (Lorry drivers, Drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.lesson:20
# text = Lorry and truck drivers have big blind spots beside their cab, where they cannot see a cyclist at all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.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	Lorry	lorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cab	cab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Lorry drivers | big blind spots |  | Drivers's cab |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | Drivers *= driver* | a cyclist |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cyclist=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:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.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 ×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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