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title: Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads… — Roads and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads in it, so the lines reflect headlights at night. Who acts: special paint, lines. A sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Roads and road signs, sentence 9

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Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads in it, so the lines reflect headlights at night.

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**Who acts:** special paint, lines · **What happens:** paint, have, reflect · **To what, where:** Road lines, tiny glass beads, paint, headlights

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» 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 (special paint, lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:9
# text = Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads in it, so the lines reflect headlights at night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 031-roads-and-road-signs.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	Road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reflect	reflect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	headlights	headlight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | present · passive |  | Road lines |  |  |  | with special paint | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with paint=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | special paint | tiny glass beads |  | paint |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Patient |
| 3 | **reflect** | present | the lines | headlights |  |  | night |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:031-roads-and-road-signs.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): 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/).

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