--- title: A boy from Ohio visiting London who looks left first, as he does at… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: A boy from Ohio visiting London who looks left first, as he does at home, may step out right in front of a bus coming from his right; that is why London paints LOOK RIGHT on the road at many crossings. Who acts: boy, bus, that, London. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» of the everyday cou --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Crossing the road, sentence 4 A boy from Ohio visiting London who looks left first, as he does at home, may step out right in front of a bus coming from his right; that is why London paints LOOK RIGHT on the road at many crossings. **Who acts:** boy, bus, that, London · **What happens:** visit, look, do, step out, come, be · **To what, where:** London, home, front, right, LOOK, road 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 (boy, bus, that, London), 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:4 # text = A boy from Ohio visiting London who looks left first, as he does at home, may step out right in front of a bus coming from his right; that is why London paints LOOK RIGHT on the road at many crossings. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 6 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 9 left leave ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 20 out out ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 right right ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 paints paint VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 37 LOOK look NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 RIGHT right ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 crossings crossing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod 45 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | gerund | a boy from Ohio *not said here* | London | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=Co-Agent | | 2 | **look** | present | a boy from Ohio | | | | | first, leave *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **do** | present | boy | | | home | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **step out** | may | a boy from Ohio | | | front of a bus | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | | 5 | **come** | gerund | a bus *not said here* | | | boy's right | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **paint** | present | London | LOOK | | the road | | at many crossings | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent look=Theme on road=Destination | 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:4`. **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 ×2. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/3/) - next →: [Crossing the road, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/)