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title: Never stand behind a car with its engine running, and never run an e… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics
description: Never stand behind a car with its engine running, and never run an engine in a closed garage. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 8

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Never stand behind a car with its engine running, and never run an engine in a closed garage.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not stand, running, not run, close · **To what, where:** car, engine, closed garage

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» of the technology 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 (you), 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:8
# text = Never stand behind a car with its engine running, and never run an engine in a closed garage.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss
8	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	running	running	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	garage	garage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a car |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind car=Location |
| 2 | **running** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **run** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a engine |  | a closed garage |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent engine=Theme in garage=Trajectory |
| 4 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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