--- title: At night a driver sees a child in dark clothes very late; reflective… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics description: At night a driver sees a child in dark clothes very late; reflective strips shine the headlights straight back to the driver, so a boy in Alaska walking home in winter darkness with a reflective band can be seen from far away. Who acts: driver, reflective strips, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Buses --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Buses, trains and being seen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/) / 3 # Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 3 At night a driver sees a child in dark clothes very late; reflective strips shine the headlights straight back to the driver, so a boy in Alaska walking home in winter darkness with a reflective band can be seen from far away. **Who acts:** driver, reflective strips, boy · **What happens:** see, shine, walk · **To what, where:** child, dark clothes, headlights, winter darkness, boy This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» 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, reflective strips, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:3 # text = At night a driver sees a child in dark clothes very late; reflective strips shine the headlights straight back to the driver, so a boy in Alaska walking home in winter darkness with a reflective band can be seen from far away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 nmod _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 reflective reflective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shine shine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 headlights headlight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 straight straight ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Alaska Alaska PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl _ _ 31 home home ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 reflective reflective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 44 away away ADV RB _ 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | a driver | a child | | dark clothes | night | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | | 2 | **shine** | present | reflective strips | the headlights | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent headlight=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | gerund | a boy in Alaska *not said here* | | | winter darkness with a reflective band | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory | | 4 | **see** | can · passive | | a boy in Alaska | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Buses, trains and being seen, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/2/) - next →: [Buses, trains and being seen, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/)