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title: Before crossing you stop at the kerb, look both ways and listen for… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics
description: Before crossing you stop at the kerb, look both ways and listen for traffic. Who acts: 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 8

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Before crossing you stop at the kerb, look both ways and listen for traffic.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cross, stop, look, listen · **To what, where:** kerb, ways

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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 (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:8
# text = Before crossing you stop at the kerb, look both ways and listen for traffic.
# 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	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kerb	kerb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cross** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | you |  |  | the kerb |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  | both ways |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute |
| 4 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for traffic | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for traffic=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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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