--- title: Lorries need a very long way to stop and swing out wide when they tu… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: Lorries need a very long way to stop and swing out wide when they turn, so you never cycle on the inside of a turning lorry. Who acts: Lorries, you. 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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 (Lorries, you), 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:18 # text = Lorries need a very long way to stop and swing out wide when they turn, so you never cycle on the inside of a turning lorry. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Lorries lorry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 wide wide ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 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 _ _ 20 cycle cycle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 turning turning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **need** | present | Lorries | a long way | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Lorries *not said here* | a long way *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **swing out** | infinitive | Lorries *not said here* | | | | | out, wide *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **turn** | present | lorries *= lorry* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **cycle** | present | you | | | the inside of a turning lorry | | | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:18`. **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. **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: [Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights/17/) - next →: [Trains and the Underground, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights/)