--- title: The safe routine is: find a safe place to cross, stop at the edge, l… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: safe routine, traffic. 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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 (safe routine, traffic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 041-crossing-the-road.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 routine routine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 19 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 33 straight straight ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 across across ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the safe routine | | | | | find *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | the safe routine *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | infinitive | the safe routine *not said here* | | | the edge | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | the safe routine *not said here* | both ways | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **listen** | infinitive | the safe routine *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wait** | infinitive | the safe routine *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **come** | present · progressive | no traffic | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **walk** | infinitive | the safe routine *not said here* | | | | then | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **look** | gerund | the safe routine *not said here* | | | | still | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **listen** | gerund | the safe routine *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Crossing the road, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/0/) - next →: [Crossing the road, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/)