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title: A coach is a big bus with luggage space underneath and seat belts, w… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics
description: A coach is a big bus with luggage space underneath and seat belts, which passengers wear; coach drivers are limited by law in how long they can drive without a break. Who acts: coach, passengers, law. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology course of Mov
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# Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 14

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A coach is a big bus with luggage space underneath and seat belts, which passengers wear; coach drivers are limited by law in how long they can drive without a break.

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**Who acts:** coach, passengers, law · **What happens:** be, wear, limit, drive · **To what, where:** big bus, seat belts, coach drivers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» 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 (coach, passengers, law), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:14
# text = A coach is a big bus with luggage space underneath and seat belts, which passengers wear; coach drivers are limited by law in how long they can drive without a break.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	luggage	luggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
19	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	limited	limit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a coach | a big bus |  |  |  | with luggage space and seat belts | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | present | passengers | seat belts |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |
| 3 | **limit** | present · passive | law | coach drivers |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Patient |
| 4 | **drive** | can | passengers *= passenger* |  |  |  |  | without a break; long *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:14`.

**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/).

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