--- title: Walking on the pavement and crossing roads — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The pavement (the sidewalk in the USA and Canada) is shared by everyone, and the road beside it belongs to fast, heavy cars th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Walking on the pavement and crossing r… # Walking on the pavement and crossing roads Lesson 266 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/0/) — The pavement (the sidewalk in the USA and Canada) is shared by everyone, and the road beside it belongs to fast, heavy cars that need many metres to stop. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/1/) — So you never run into the road: you stop at the kerb, look and listen, and walk across, at a crossing, a crosswalk or a corner where you can. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/2/) — Drivers cannot always see you: a car reversing out of a driveway may not see a child behind it, and a car in the next lane may not see you behind a car that has stopped. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/3/) — A boy in Leeds walks his little brother to the shop holding his hand, on the side away from the traffic; when a car backs out of a driveway, both stop and wait until it has gone. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/4/) — A small child next to a busy road is held by the hand and kept on the side away from the traffic, because small children can dart into the road. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/5/) — When a car comes out of a driveway across the pavement, you stop and let it pass, because the driver may not see a child behind it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/6/) — Ball games belong in a park, a yard or a playground, not on the pavement, because a ball can roll into the road and a child may chase it without looking. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/7/) — A dog tied up alone outside a shop may be nervous and snap, so you do not pat it without its owner. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/8/) — When it rains, you stand back from the kerb, because passing cars splash water from the puddles at the edge of the road. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/9/) — On a narrow pavement friends walk in a line and step aside for prams, wheelchairs, canes and walking frames, and pass slowly and politely, saying excuse me. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/10/) — You never run across a road: you stop, look and walk, because a running child can trip and drivers cannot stop in time. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/11/) — At a crosswalk you wait for the cars to stop and make eye contact with the drivers, because some drivers do not yield (let you go first). - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/12/) — When one car stops for you, you check that every other lane has stopped too before you pass in front of it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/13/) — A school crossing guard, also called a lollipop man or lollipop lady, stops the traffic, and you cross only when they signal you. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/14/) — If you drop something in the road while crossing, you leave it and finish crossing, then get it later when it is safe or ask an adult. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/15/) — Even on a one-way street you look both ways, because bikes, scooters and some buses may come the other way. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/16/) — A car going at speed needs many metres to stop, even when the driver has seen you. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/17/) — In many places in the USA, crossing in the middle of a block (jaywalking) is against local rules and more dangerous than crossing at a corner or crosswalk. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/18/) — A boy in California crossed a street while looking at his phone; he never saw the car turning towards him, and it hit him and broke his leg. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/19/) — A girl in London ran out between two parked vans after her ball; a cyclist could not stop in time, knocked her down, and she had a broken collarbone. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/20/) — Children stepping out between parked cars are hidden from drivers until it is too late to stop. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/21/) — People looking at phones while crossing miss cars they would otherwise have seen. - ← previous: [Holidays of the region](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)