--- title: At a painted crosswalk in the USA, drivers must yield, but some do n… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics description: At a painted crosswalk in the USA, drivers must yield, but some do not, so wait for cars to stop and make eye contact before crossing. Who acts: drivers, cars. 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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 (drivers, cars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:7 # text = At a painted crosswalk in the USA, drivers must yield, but some do not, so wait for cars to stop and make eye contact before crossing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.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 ×4 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 crosswalk crosswalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 yield yield VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **yield** | must | drivers | | | a painted crosswalk in the USA | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | cars | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | cars *not said here* | eye contact | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contact=Product | | 6 | **cross** | gerund | cars *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:7`. **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 ×4. **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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