--- title: Drivers often do not see children, so try to catch the driver's eye;… — Riding a bike or a scooter safely · tree and pragmatics description: Drivers often do not see children, so try to catch the driver's eye; a boy in Austin waits at a driveway until the reversing car has stopped and the driver has seen him. Who acts: Drivers, boy, driver. 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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 (Drivers, boy, driver), 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:4 # text = Drivers often do not see children, so try to catch the driver's eye; a boy in Austin waits at a driveway until the reversing car has stopped and the driver has seen him. # 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 1 Drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Austin Austin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 driveway driveway NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 reversing reverse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | Drivers | children | | | | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | | 2 | **try** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the driver's eye | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | present | a boy in Austin | | | a driveway | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at driveway=Location | | 5 | **reverse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **stop** | present · perfect · passive | | the reversing car | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **see** | present · perfect | the driver | boy | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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:005-bikes-and-scooters.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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Riding a bike or a scooter safely, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/3/) - next →: [Riding a bike or a scooter safely, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/)