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title: Many cycling crashes happen when a car turns across a rider or a par… — Riding a bike or a scooter safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Many cycling crashes happen when a car turns across a rider or a parked car's door opens suddenly. Who acts: Many cycling crashes, car, door. 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 pragmatics of ev
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# Riding a bike or a scooter safely, sentence 20

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Many cycling crashes happen when a car turns across a rider or a parked car's door opens suddenly.

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**Who acts:** Many cycling crashes, car, door · **What happens:** happen, turn, park, open · **To what, where:** rider

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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 (Many cycling crashes, car, door), 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:20
# text = Many cycling crashes happen when a car turns across a rider or a parked car's door opens suddenly.
# 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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	cycling	cycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **happen** | present | Many cycling crashes |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | a car |  |  | a rider |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across rider=Trajectory |
| 3 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **open** | present | a parked car's door |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:005-bikes-and-scooters.lesson:20`.

**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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