--- title: A toddler can dart into the road without warning, a driver may not s… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics description: A toddler can dart into the road without warning, a driver may not stop at a crosswalk, and a truck driver cannot see a cyclist right beside the cab. Who acts: toddler, driver, truck driver. 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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 (toddler, driver, truck driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:1 # text = A toddler can dart into the road without warning, a driver may not stop at a crosswalk, and a truck driver cannot see a cyclist right beside the cab. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 dart dart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 without without ADP IN _ 9 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 9 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 crosswalk crosswalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 truck truck NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cyclist cyclist NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 right right ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 beside beside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cab cab NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dart** | can | a toddler | | | the road | | without warning | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination | | 2 | **not** **stop** | may | a driver | | | a crosswalk | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crosswalk=Location | | 3 | **not** **see** | can | a truck driver | a cyclist | | the cab | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cyclist=Stimulus | 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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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