Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 4

Parked cars are like a wall: a girl stepping out from between two parked vans cannot see the cars coming, and the drivers cannot see her, because she is shorter than the vans.

Who acts: Parked cars, girl, cars, drivers · What happens: park, be, step out, not see, come · To what, where: two parked vans, cars, girl

This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» of the everyday 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 (Parked cars, girl, cars, drivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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