--- title: Crossing at the green signal and waiting for it keeps you safe from… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics description: Crossing at the green signal and waiting for it keeps you safe from cars. Who acts: Crossing. A sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/19/) [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/) / [Staying up, screens and coming home late](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/) / 19 # Staying up, screens and coming home late, sentence 19 Crossing at the green signal and waiting for it keeps you safe from cars. **Who acts:** Crossing · **What happens:** cross, wait, keep · **To what, where:** green signal, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:19 # text = Crossing at the green signal and waiting for it keeps you safe from cars. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.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 Crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | gerund | | | | the green signal | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | for signal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | Crossing | you | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:19`. **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/). - ← previous: [Staying up, screens and coming home late, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/18/) - next →: [Staying up, screens and coming home late, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/)