--- title: Railway crossings, maps and addresses — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Railway crossings, maps and addresses», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A train is heavy and fast and needs a very long way to stop, and it is faster and closer than it looks, so at a level crossing or r --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/) [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/) / Railway crossings, maps and addresses # Railway crossings, maps and addresses Lesson 275 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/0/) — A train is heavy and fast and needs a very long way to stop, and it is faster and closer than it looks, so at a level crossing or railroad crossing you stop when the lights flash, the bells ring or the barriers come down. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/2/) — To find your way, you find north and your own place on a map; to help others, you give directions with landmarks and left and right; and if you get lost, you stop, think and go to a safe place to call home. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/3/) — A boy in Perth tells a visitor, "Go past the library, turn left at the bakery, and the school is on your right," and she finds it at once. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/4/) — At a level crossing or railroad crossing you stop when the lights flash, the bells ring or the barriers come down, because a train is coming. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/5/) — You never go around or under lowered barriers, because a train may come very fast. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/6/) — Trains cannot stop quickly, and railway lines may be electrified, so you never play on or near them. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/7/) — Electricity from overhead railway wires can jump to you, so you never climb on anything near them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/8/) — A train is faster and closer than it looks, so it is easy to misjudge. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/9/) — Putting coins or anything else on the track is dangerous and can derail a train, which means knock it off its rails, and people on it can be hurt. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/10/) — To read a map, you first find north and your own place on it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/11/) — Good directions use landmarks and left and right. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/12/) — If you get lost walking home, you stop, think and go to a safe place, such as a shop or a library, to call home; staying calm helps, because panic makes it harder to think. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/13/) — An address goes in this order: the name, then house number and street, then town or city, then state or county, then postcode or ZIP code. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/14/) — Postal workers and sorting machines read addresses in that order. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/15/) — A boy in Ohio ducked under the lowered barrier at a railroad crossing because he could not see a train yet; the train came much faster than he thought and only just missed him. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/16/) — Two teenagers in England climbed onto a parked train wagon to take photos; electricity jumped from the overhead wire to one of them, and he was badly burned. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/17/) — A train can take more than a kilometre to stop, so a driver who sees someone on the line usually cannot stop in time. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/18/) — Electricity from overhead railway wires can jump through the air to a person nearby without them touching the wire. - ← previous: [Helpers in town and building sites](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/) - next →: [Money in town and staying safe in crowds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)