---
title: Bright clothes help drivers see you by day, and reflective clothes s… — Riding a bike or a scooter safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Bright clothes help drivers see you by day, and reflective clothes shine in headlights at night. Who acts: Bright clothes, drivers, reflective clothes. A sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Riding a bike or a scooter safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/) / 15

# Riding a bike or a scooter safely, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bright clothes help drivers see you by day, and reflective clothes shine in headlights at night.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Bright clothes, drivers, reflective clothes · **What happens:** help, see, shine · **To what, where:** drivers, you, headlights

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» 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 clothes, drivers, reflective clothes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:005-bikes-and-scooters.lesson:15
# text = Bright clothes help drivers see you by day, and reflective clothes shine in headlights at night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 005-bikes-and-scooters.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	reflective	reflective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	headlights	headlight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Bright clothes | drivers |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent driver=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | you |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shine** | present | reflective clothes |  |  | headlights | night |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in headlight=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:005-bikes-and-scooters.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Riding a bike or a scooter safely, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/14/)
- next →: [Riding a bike or a scooter safely, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/16/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/)

