--- title: In the USA and Canada cars drive on the right, so the nearest cars c… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: In the USA and Canada cars drive on the right, so the nearest cars come from your left; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand cars drive on the left, so the nearest cars come from your right. Who acts: USA cars, nearest cars, cars. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» of the everyday --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Crossing the road, sentence 3 In the USA and Canada cars drive on the right, so the nearest cars come from your left; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand cars drive on the left, so the nearest cars come from your right. **Who acts:** USA cars, nearest cars, cars · **What happens:** drive, come · **To what, where:** right, left, UK 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 (USA cars, nearest cars, cars), 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:3 # text = In the USA and Canada cars drive on the right, so the nearest cars come from your left; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand cars drive on the left, so the nearest cars come from your right. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 3 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 7 drive drive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 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 , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 New New PROPN NNP _ 30 flat _ _ 30 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 drive drive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 amod _ _ 40 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | present | USA cars | | | the right | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | present | the nearest cars | | | your left | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from left=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **drive** | present | cars | | | the UK and Ireland and Australia and New Zealand | | on the left | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in uk=Destination on left=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **come** | present | the nearest cars | | | your right | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial\_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:3`. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/2/) - next →: [Crossing the road, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/)