--- title: You are shorter than its bonnet, so a driver coming along the road c… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: You are shorter than its bonnet, so a driver coming along the road cannot see you behind it, and you cannot see the driver either. Who acts: You, driver. 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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 (You, driver), 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:3 # text = You are shorter than its bonnet, so a driver coming along the road cannot see you behind it, and you cannot see the driver either. # 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): no change 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 bonnet bonnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 along along ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 behind behind ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | You | | | | | than van's bonnet; short *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | gerund | a driver *not said here* | | | the road | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **not** **see** | can | a driver | you | | van | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **see** | can | you | the driver | | | | either *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer driver=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/2/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)