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title: In daylight, bright fluorescent colours help you stand out; at night… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics
description: In daylight, bright fluorescent colours help you stand out; at night it is reflective material and lights that work. Who acts: bright fluorescent colours, you, daylight, lights. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 4

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In daylight, bright fluorescent colours help you stand out; at night it is reflective material and lights that work.

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**Who acts:** bright fluorescent colours, you, daylight, lights · **What happens:** help, stand out, be, work · **To what, where:** you, daylight, reflective material

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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 (bright fluorescent colours, you, daylight, lights), 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:4
# text = In daylight, bright fluorescent colours help you stand out; at night it is reflective material and lights that work.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fluorescent	fluorescent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	reflective	reflective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **help** | present | bright fluorescent colours | you |  | daylight |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stand out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | daylight | reflective material and lights |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | present | lights |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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): no change. **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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