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title: Outside school you cross with the crossing guard or lollipop lady (a… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: Outside school you cross with the crossing guard or lollipop lady (a helper with a big round stop sign) and wait for their signal. Who acts: you, guard. A sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 15

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Outside school you cross with the crossing guard or lollipop lady (a helper with a big round stop sign) and wait for their signal.

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**Who acts:** you, guard · **What happens:** cross, wait, signal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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 (you, guard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:15
# text = Outside school you cross with the crossing guard or lollipop lady (a helper with a big round stop sign) and wait for their signal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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	Outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | present | you |  |  |  |  | outside school; with the crossing guard or lollipop lady | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for guard's signal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **signal** |  | guard |  |  |  |  |  | nom signal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:15`.

**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/).

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