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title: In Britain you can start learning to drive a car at 17. — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Britain you can start learning to drive a car at 17. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 22

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In Britain you can start learning to drive a car at 17.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** start, learn, drive · **To what, where:** Britain, car, 17

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:22
# text = In Britain you can start learning to drive a car at 17.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **start** | can | you |  |  | Britain |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **drive** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a car |  | 17 |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent car=Theme at 17=Destination |

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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:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:22`.

**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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