--- title: Cars that reverse are even harder: drivers looking back over a boot… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: Cars that reverse are even harder: drivers looking back over a boot or out of a driveway cannot see low down, which is why car parks and driveways are not places to play. Who acts: Cars, drivers, car parks. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primary --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Road and railway safety, sentence 5 Cars that reverse are even harder: drivers looking back over a boot or out of a driveway cannot see low down, which is why car parks and driveways are not places to play. **Who acts:** Cars, drivers, car parks · **What happens:** reverse, be, look back, not see, not be, play · **To what, where:** places 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 (Cars, drivers, car parks), 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:5 # text = Cars that reverse are even harder: drivers looking back over a boot or out of a driveway cannot see low down, which is why car parks and driveways are not places to play. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Cars cars NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reverse reverse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 even even ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 out out ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 driveway driveway NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 22 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 parataxis _ _ 28 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 driveways driveway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reverse** | present | Cars | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Cars | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **look back** | gerund | drivers *not said here* | | | | | over a boot or a driveway | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over boot=Theme | | 4 | **not** **see** | can | drivers | | | | | down *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | car parks and driveways | places | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **play** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/4/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)