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title: A car going at 30 miles per hour needs about 23 metres to stop, whic… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics
description: A car going at 30 miles per hour needs about 23 metres to stop, which is about five car lengths. Who acts: car, 23 metres. 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 18

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A car going at 30 miles per hour needs about 23 metres to stop, which is about five car lengths.

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**Who acts:** car, 23 metres · **What happens:** go, need, stop, be · **To what, where:** 23 metres, five car lengths

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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 (car, 23 metres), 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:18
# text = A car going at 30 miles per hour needs about 23 metres to stop, which is about five car lengths.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	per	per	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	lengths	length	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **go** | gerund | a car *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at 30 miles per hour | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at mile=Location |
| 2 | **need** | present | a car | 23 metres |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a car *not said here* | 23 metres *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | present | 23 metres | five car lengths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:18`.

**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): no change. **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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