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title: In the USA and Canada traffic drives on the right, so you look left… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA and Canada traffic drives on the right, so you look left first. Who acts: traffic, you. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Crossing the road, sentence 11

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In the USA and Canada traffic drives on the right, so you look left first.

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**Who acts:** traffic, you · **What happens:** drive, look · **To what, where:** USA

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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 (traffic, you), 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:11
# text = In the USA and Canada traffic drives on the right, so you look left first.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	left	left	ADV	RB	_	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | present | traffic |  |  | the USA and Canada |  | on the right | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in usa=Destination on right=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | present | you |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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