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title: A school crossing guard, also called a lollipop man or lollipop lady… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics
description: A school crossing guard, also called a lollipop man or lollipop lady, stops the traffic, and you cross only when they signal you. Who acts: crossing guard, you, cars. A sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 13

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A school crossing guard, also called a lollipop man or lollipop lady, stops the traffic, and you cross only when they signal you.

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**Who acts:** crossing guard, you, cars · **What happens:** call, stop, cross, signal · **To what, where:** lollipop man, traffic, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (crossing guard, you, cars), 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:13
# text = A school crossing guard, also called a lollipop man or lollipop lady, stops the traffic, and you cross only when they signal you.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	signal	signal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **call** | participle | a crossing guard *not said here* | a lollipop man or lollipop lady |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present | a crossing guard | the traffic |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality traffic=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cross** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **signal** *speech: other* | present | cars *= car* |  | you |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:13`.

**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.

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