--- title: At a crosswalk you wait for the cars to stop and make eye contact wi… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: 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). Who acts: you, cars, drivers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cars, drivers), 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:11 # text = 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). # 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 ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 crosswalk crosswalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 yield yield VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 advmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | you | | | a crosswalk | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crosswalk=Location | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the cars | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | the cars *not said here* | eye contact | | | | with the drivers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contact=Product | | 4 | **not** **yield** | present · do-support | some drivers | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:11`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/10/) - next →: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/)