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title: So you never run into the road: you stop at the kerb, look and liste… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not run, stop, look, listen, walk · **To what, where:** road, kerb, crossing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kerb	kerb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	across	across	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crosswalk	crosswalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **not** **run** | present | you |  |  |  |  | into the road *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into road=Result |
| 2 | **stop** | present | you |  |  | the kerb |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **walk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a crossing and a crosswalk or a corner |  | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=Trajectory |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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