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title: In the UK the steps of road crossing are taught as the Green Cross C… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK the steps of road crossing are taught as the Green Cross Code. 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 17

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In the UK the steps of road crossing are taught as the Green Cross Code.

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**What happens:** teach, step · **To what, where:** steps, UK, road crossing

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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: 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:17
# text = In the UK the steps of road crossing are taught as the Green Cross Code.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Green	Green	PROPN	NNP	_	15	compound	_	_
14	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Code	code	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the steps of road crossing |  | the UK |  | as the Green Cross Code | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **step** |  |  | road crossing |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:17`.

**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): 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/).

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