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title: Outside a car the rules matter just as much: drivers cannot see ever… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics
description: Outside a car the rules matter just as much: drivers cannot see everything, so you never play behind parked cars and you keep clear of anything reversing. Who acts: rules, drivers, you. A sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology course of Mova's primary s
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# Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 4

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Outside a car the rules matter just as much: drivers cannot see everything, so you never play behind parked cars and you keep clear of anything reversing.

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**Who acts:** rules, drivers, you · **What happens:** matter, not see, not play, park, keep, reverse · **To what, where:** everything, parked cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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 (rules, drivers, you), 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:4
# text = Outside a car the rules matter just as much: drivers cannot see everything, so you never play behind parked cars and you keep clear of anything reversing.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
11	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
20	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj
26	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	_
30	reversing	reverse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | present | the rules |  |  |  |  | outside a car | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | drivers | everything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **play** | present | you |  |  | parked cars |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | present | you |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **reverse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:018-car-safety.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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