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title: A big truck or lorry has blind spots where the driver cannot see a b… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics
description: A big truck or lorry has blind spots where the driver cannot see a bike at all, so a cyclist never rides up the inside of a truck at a junction. Who acts: big truck, driver, cyclist. A sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» of the everyday cou
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# Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 3

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A big truck or lorry has blind spots where the driver cannot see a bike at all, so a cyclist never rides up the inside of a truck at a junction.

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**Who acts:** big truck, driver, cyclist · **What happens:** have, not see, not ride up · **To what, where:** blind spots, bike, all, inside, junction

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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 (big truck, driver, cyclist), 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:3
# text = A big truck or lorry has blind spots where the driver cannot see a bike at all, so a cyclist never rides up the inside of a truck at a junction.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	lorry	lorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	junction	junction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a big truck or lorry | blind spots |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | the driver | a bike |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bike=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **ride up** | present | a cyclist | the inside of a truck |  | a junction |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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