--- title: Big vehicles have big rules: a tram runs on rails and cannot swerve,… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: Big vehicles have big rules: a tram runs on rails and cannot swerve, and a lorry is so long it swings wide on corners and needs a long way to stop. Who acts: Big vehicles, tram, lorry, tap. 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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 (Big vehicles, tram, lorry, tap), 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:2 # text = Big vehicles have big rules: a tram runs on rails and cannot swerve, and a lorry is so long it swings wide on corners and needs a long way to stop. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 vehicles vehicle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tram tram NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 swerve swerve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 swings swing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 25 wide wide ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | Big vehicles | big rules | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 2 | **run** | present | a tram | | | rails | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rail=Trajectory | | 3 | **not** **swerve** | can | a tram *not said here* | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a lorry | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **swing** | present | tap | | | corners | | wide *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on corner=Trajectory | | 6 | **need** | present | tap *not said here* | a long way | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | | 7 | **stop** | to-infinitive | tap *not said here* | a long way *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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, 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. 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