--- title: In the UK it is illegal to ride a private e-scooter on public roads… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK it is illegal to ride a private e-scooter on public roads and pavements; only rental scooters in trial areas are allowed, and only for older riders with a driving licence. A sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Electric cars and charging](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/) / 13 # Electric cars and charging, sentence 13 In the UK it is illegal to ride a private e-scooter on public roads and pavements; only rental scooters in trial areas are allowed, and only for older riders with a driving licence. **What happens:** be, ride, allow · **To what, where:** UK, private e-scooter, public roads, rental scooters This is a sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:13 # text = In the UK it is illegal to ride a private e-scooter on public roads and pavements; only rental scooters in trial areas are allowed, and only for older riders with a driving licence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 019-electric-cars-and-charging.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 illegal illegal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 e-scooter e-scooter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 pavements pavement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 rental rental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 scooters scooter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 riders rider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 driving driving NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 licence licence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is** | present | | | | the UK | | for older riders with a driving licence; illegal *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ride** | to-infinitive | | a private e-scooter | | public roads and pavements | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e-scooter=Theme | | 3 | **allow** | present · passive | | rental scooters in trial areas | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | 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:019-electric-cars-and-charging.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Electric cars and charging, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/12/) - next →: [Electric cars and charging, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/)