--- title: Drivers have blind spots behind and to the sides, and a small child… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: Drivers have blind spots behind and to the sides, and a small child can be hidden behind a car; lorries have huge blind spots, and if you cannot see the driver's mirrors, the driver cannot see you. Who acts: Drivers, lorries, you, 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, lorries, you, driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:15 # text = Drivers have blind spots behind and to the sides, and a small child can be hidden behind a car; lorries have huge blind spots, and if you cannot see the driver's mirrors, the driver cannot see you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 018-car-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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 behind behind ADP IN _ 4 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 18 behind behind ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 lorries lorry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Drivers | blind spots and the sides | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 2 | **hide** | can · passive | | a small child | | a car | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind car=Location | | 3 | **have** | present | lorries | huge blind spots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 4 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | the driver's mirrors | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirror=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **see** | can | the driver | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:15`. **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: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/14/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)