--- title: Crossing the road — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Crossing the road», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A car needs time and distance to stop, and its driver may not see a small child, so before crossing you always stop at the kerb, look and listen until --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/) [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/) / Crossing the road # Crossing the road Lesson 41 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/41-crossing-the-road/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/0/) — A car needs time and distance to stop, and its driver may not see a small child, so before crossing you always stop at the kerb, look and listen until the road is clear. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/1/) — The safe routine is: find a safe place to cross, stop at the edge, look both ways and listen, wait until no traffic is coming, then walk straight across, still looking and listening. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/2/) — Which way you look first depends on the side the traffic drives on: you look first towards the lane nearest to you, because those cars reach you first. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/3/) — In the USA and Canada cars drive on the right, so the nearest cars come from your left; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand cars drive on the left, so the nearest cars come from your right. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/4/) — A boy from Ohio visiting London who looks left first, as he does at home, may step out right in front of a bus coming from his right; that is why London paints LOOK RIGHT on the road at many crossings. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/5/) — A boy in Ohio ran into the road after his ball without stopping; a car could not stop in time and hit him, and he spent weeks in hospital with a broken leg. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/6/) — A girl in Manchester stepped out from between two parked vans; the driver coming along could not see her until the last second, and only just managed to swerve. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/7/) — A moving car cannot stop at once; the faster it goes, the longer it takes to stop. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/8/) — Before crossing you stop at the kerb, look both ways and listen for traffic. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/9/) — You cross only when no traffic is coming, and you keep looking and listening while you cross. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/10/) — You walk straight across the road, never run, because running makes you more likely to trip and fall, and never cross diagonally, on a slant, which keeps you in the road longer. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/11/) — In the USA and Canada traffic drives on the right, so you look left first. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/12/) — In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand traffic drives on the left, so you look right first. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/13/) — Headphones and phones take your attention and hearing away from the road. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/14/) — Quiet electric cars can be very hard to hear, so your eyes matter as much as your ears. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/15/) — Young children should cross roads holding an adult's hand. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/16/) — A bend or the top of a hill hides cars from you, and hides you from drivers, so it is a bad place to cross. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/17/) — In the UK the steps of road crossing are taught as the Green Cross Code. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/18/) — A car going at 30 miles per hour needs about 23 metres to stop, which is about five car lengths. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/19/) — A child hit by a car is much more likely to be badly hurt than an adult, because the car hits the head and body. - ← previous: [Thinking it through: the science behind home safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/) - next →: [Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)