--- title: Indicators flash to show which way a car will turn, and reversing li… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: Indicators flash to show which way a car will turn, and reversing lights are white so people behind know the car is about to move back. Who acts: Indicators, car, reversing lights, people. 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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 (Indicators, car, reversing lights, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:13 # text = Indicators flash to show which way a car will turn, and reversing lights are white so people behind know the car is about to move back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 017-inside-a-car.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Indicators indicator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flash flash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 5 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 reversing reverse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 19 behind behind ADP IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **flash** | present | Indicators | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Indicators *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **turn** | future | a car | which way | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme way=Result | | 4 | **reverse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | reversing lights | | | | | white *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | infinitive | people *not said here* | the car | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | present | people | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **move back** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/12/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)