--- title: Parked cars are like a wall: a girl stepping out from between two pa… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics description: Parked cars are like a wall: a girl stepping out from between two parked vans cannot see the cars coming, and the drivers cannot see her, because she is shorter than the vans. Who acts: Parked cars, girl, cars, drivers. 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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 (Parked cars, girl, cars, drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:4 # text = Parked cars are like a wall: a girl stepping out from between two parked vans cannot see the cars coming, and the drivers cannot see her, because she is shorter than the vans. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 10 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 vans van NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 advcl _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 vans van NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Parked cars | | | | | like a wall | tree rules | | 3 | **step out** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | | | two parked vans | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from van=Trajectory | | 4 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **see** | can | a girl | the cars | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | gerund | the cars *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **see** | can | the drivers | girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 8 | **is** | present | girl | | | | | than the vans; short *property* | tree rules | 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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:4`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/3/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked c…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/)