--- title: Traffic lights, crossings and road signs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: At a pedestrian crossing a red standing figure means wait, even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/) [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/) / Traffic lights, crossings and road signs # Traffic lights, crossings and road signs Lesson 267 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/0/) — At a pedestrian crossing a red standing figure means wait, even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light and may come fast. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/1/) — Crossings are made for everyone: a beeping or ticking sound tells blind people when to cross, and in the UK a little cone under the button box spins for people who can neither see nor hear well. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/2/) — Road signs and markings are a language: red circles usually give orders or say no, give way or yield means let others go first, and lines on the road show where cars stop and where they may not park. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/3/) — A girl in Edinburgh presses the crossing button once and waits; her friend presses it ten times, but the lights change at the same moment for both. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/4/) — When the red standing figure shows, you wait on the pavement even if the road looks empty, because the cars have a green light. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/5/) — You press the crossing button once and wait; pressing many times does not make it faster. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/6/) — The button tells the lights that someone is waiting to cross. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/8/) — In the UK a small cone under the crossing box spins when it is safe to cross, to help deafblind people. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/9/) — A give way or yield sign means drivers must slow down and let other traffic go first. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/10/) — A school zone sign means cars must drive slower near the school at certain times, because children are near the road. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/11/) — A no pedestrians sign means nobody may walk there; you never walk on a motorway, freeway or highway, where cars drive very fast. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/12/) — Signs with a red circle usually give orders or say no. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/13/) — A stop line shows where drivers must stop, and double yellow lines in the UK and Ireland mean no parking. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/14/) — The USA and the UK use miles per hour; Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland use kilometres per hour. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/15/) — The same number on a speed sign means a faster speed in miles per hour than in kilometres per hour. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/16/) — A signpost arrow shows the way to a town and the number shows how far it is; in the UK that number is in miles. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/17/) — A boy in Texas started crossing when the "Don't Walk" sign was already flashing; a turning truck did not see him, and he was hit and badly hurt. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/18/) — A girl in Sydney crossed against a red man because the road looked empty; a car came fast round the bend on its green and struck her, and she was in hospital for weeks. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/19/) — Crossing against the signal is one of the main ways children are hit by cars at junctions. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/20/) — Drivers turning at corners are watching other cars and may not see a child on the crossing. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/21/) — If the green figure starts flashing while you are already crossing, keep walking steadily to the other side; do not run back or stop in the middle. - ← previous: [Walking on the pavement and crossing roads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/) - next →: [In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)