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title: The driver of a truck or lorry cannot see a cyclist in its blind spo… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics
description: The driver of a truck or lorry cannot see a cyclist in its blind spots, and a truck may turn across the inside lane at a junction; if you cannot see the driver's face in the truck's mirror, the driver cannot see you either. Who acts: driver, truck, you. A sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts,
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# Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 15

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The driver of a truck or lorry cannot see a cyclist in its blind spots, and a truck may turn across the inside lane at a junction; if you cannot see the driver's face in the truck's mirror, the driver cannot see you either.

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**Who acts:** driver, truck, you · **What happens:** not see, turn · **To what, where:** cyclist, blind spots, inside lane, face, mirror, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 (driver, truck, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:15
# text = The driver of a truck or lorry cannot see a cyclist in its blind spots, and a truck may turn across the inside lane at a junction; if you cannot see the driver's face in the truck's mirror, the driver cannot see you either.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.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 ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lorry	lorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	junction	junction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
48	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
51	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	50	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **see** | can | the driver of a truck or lorry | a cyclist |  | driver's blind spots |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cyclist=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn** | may | a truck |  |  | the inside lane |  | at a junction | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme across lane=Source at junction=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | the driver's face |  | the truck's mirror |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **see** | can | the driver | you |  |  |  | either *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:15`.

**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 ×4. **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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