--- title: Small children are lower than a car bonnet, so drivers cannot see th… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: Small children are lower than a car bonnet, so drivers cannot see them between parked cars; never step out between parked cars, find a clear place to cross. Who acts: Small children, drivers. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/11/) [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/) / [Road and railway safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/) / 11 # Road and railway safety, sentence 11 Small children are lower than a car bonnet, so drivers cannot see them between parked cars; never step out between parked cars, find a clear place to cross. **Who acts:** Small children, drivers · **What happens:** be, not see, park, not step out, find, cross · **To what, where:** children, parked cars, clear place This is a sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» 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 (Small children, drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:11 # text = Small children are lower than a car bonnet, so drivers cannot see them between parked cars; never step out between parked cars, find a clear place to cross. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 027-road-and-railway-safety.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 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bonnet bonnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 11 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 between between ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Small children | | | | | than a car bonnet; low *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **see** | can | drivers | children *= child* | | | | between parked cars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 3 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **step out** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | | | parked cars | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory | | 5 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **find** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | a clear place | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | | 7 | **cross** | to-infinitive | drivers *not said here* | a clear place *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP 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:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Road and railway safety, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/9/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)