--- title: You cross only when no traffic is coming, and you keep looking and l… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: You cross only when no traffic is coming, and you keep looking and listening while you cross. Who acts: You, traffic. 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. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Crossing the road, sentence 9 You cross only when no traffic is coming, and you keep looking and listening while you cross. **Who acts:** You, traffic · **What happens:** cross, come, keep, look, listen 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, traffic), 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:9 # text = You cross only when no traffic is coming, and you keep looking and listening while you cross. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | present | You | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | present · progressive | no traffic | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **listen** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cross** | present | you | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/8/) - next →: [Crossing the road, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/)