--- title: Picture standing at the kerb as one glides past with only a soft hum… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics description: Picture standing at the kerb as one glides past with only a soft hum: that quietness is lovely for the street, and it is exactly why you look as well as listen before crossing. Who acts: you, one, quietness. 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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 (you, one, quietness), 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:3 # text = Picture standing at the kerb as one glides past with only a soft hum: that quietness is lovely for the street, and it is exactly why you look as well as listen before crossing. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:acl 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kerb kerb NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 one one PRON NN _ 8 nsubj _ _ 8 glides glide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 past past ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hum hum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 quietness quietness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl:relcl _ _ 31 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 34 cc _ _ 32 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 fixed _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 35 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | the kerb | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at kerb=Location | | 3 | **glide** | present | one | | | | | with a soft hum; past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | that quietness | | | | | for the street; lovely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | quietness | | | | | exactly, why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | present | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* | crossing | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Electric cars and charging, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/1/) - next →: [Electric cars and charging, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/)