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title: In many places in the USA, crossing in the middle of a block (jaywal… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: crossing. A sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 17

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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.

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**Who acts:** crossing · **What happens:** cross, be · **To what, where:** middle, many places, corner

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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), 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:17
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	jaywalking	jaywalking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	advcl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	crosswalk	crosswalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | gerund |  |  |  | the middle of a block |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | crossing |  |  | many places in the USA |  | against local rules; dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cross** | gerund | crossing *not said here* |  |  | a corner or crosswalk |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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