--- title: You walk straight across the road, never run, because running makes… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: You, slant. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/10/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/) / 10 # Crossing the road, sentence 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. **Who acts:** You, slant · **What happens:** walk, not run, run, make, trip, fall · **To what, where:** road, you, slant This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» 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 (You, slant), 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:10 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 straight straight ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 across across ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 16 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 trip trip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 diagonally diagonally ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 slant slant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | You | | | the road | | straight *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **run** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | | you | | | | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | | 5 | **trip** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **cross** | infinitive | | | | a slant | | diagonally *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **keep** | present | a slant | you | | the road | | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in road=Location | 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:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/9/) - next →: [Crossing the road, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/)