--- title: Children can find it hard to judge how fast a car is coming, which i… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: Children can find it hard to judge how fast a car is coming, which is one more reason to cross at a crossing. Who acts: Children, driver, car. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Road and railway safety, sentence 9 Children can find it hard to judge how fast a car is coming, which is one more reason to cross at a crossing. **Who acts:** Children, driver, car · **What happens:** find, judge, come, be, cross · **To what, where:** driver, one more reason, crossing 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 (Children, driver, car), 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:9 # text = Children can find it hard to judge how fast a car is coming, which is one more reason to cross at a crossing. # 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 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | can | Children | driver | | | | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **judge** | to-infinitive | driver *not said here* | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **come** | present · progressive | a car | | | | | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | | one more reason | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cross** | to-infinitive | a car *not said here* | | | a crossing | | | 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:9`. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/8/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)