--- title: At night, bright or reflective clothes and a light help drivers see… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: At night, bright or reflective clothes and a light help drivers see you far earlier than dark clothes do; that is why school bags have reflective strips. Who acts: bright clothes, drivers, that, school bags. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primar --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Road and railway safety, sentence 17 At night, bright or reflective clothes and a light help drivers see you far earlier than dark clothes do; that is why school bags have reflective strips. **Who acts:** bright clothes, drivers, that, school bags · **What happens:** help, see, be, have · **To what, where:** drivers, you, reflective strips 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 (bright clothes, drivers, that, school bags), 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:17 # text = At night, bright or reflective clothes and a light help drivers see you far earlier than dark clothes do; that is why school bags have reflective strips. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 reflective reflective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 nsubj _ _ 20 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 reflective reflective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | bright clothes and a light | drivers | | | night | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent driver=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | you | | | | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **be** | present | that | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | school bags | reflective strips | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient | 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:17`. **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, R6-punct-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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/16/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)