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title: In left-driving countries the nearest lane of traffic comes from you… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics
description: In left-driving countries the nearest lane of traffic comes from your right. Who acts: nearest lane. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 17

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In left-driving countries the nearest lane of traffic comes from your right.

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**Who acts:** nearest lane · **What happens:** drive, come · **To what, where:** left driving countries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (nearest lane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:17
# text = In left-driving countries the nearest lane of traffic comes from your right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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	_	5	case	_	_
2	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **drive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | the nearest lane of traffic |  |  | left driving countries |  | from your right | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial\_Location |

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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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:17`.

**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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