--- title: Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The safest place to cross is a crossing: drivers expect people there and the crossing gives you a turn to walk. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/) [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/) / Traffic lights, crossings and parked c… # Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars Lesson 42 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/0/) — The safest place to cross is a crossing: drivers expect people there and the crossing gives you a turn to walk. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/1/) — At a crossing with lights you press the button and wait for the signal to walk: a green or white walking person; a red person or a red or orange hand means do not start crossing. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/2/) — A zebra crossing has black and white stripes and, in the UK, flashing orange globes on poles; drivers should stop for people waiting there, but you wait until the traffic has really stopped before you step out. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/3/) — Even when the signal says walk, you still look, because a driver turning the corner or rushing through a red light may not stop. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/4/) — Parked cars are like a wall: a girl stepping out from between two parked vans cannot see the cars coming, and the drivers cannot see her, because she is shorter than the vans. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/5/) — A boy in Toronto crossed when the walk signal had just turned red because the cars had not moved yet; a car turning the corner did not see him and hit him. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/6/) — A girl in Auckland crossed at a zebra crossing without looking because she thought cars must stop; a driver did not see her and braked only just in time. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/7/) — A crossing is safer than crossing anywhere else, because drivers expect people there. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/8/) — At light-controlled crossings you press the button and wait for the walk signal. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/9/) — A red standing person or a red or orange hand means do not start to cross. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/10/) — In the USA a flashing hand or a countdown means do not start crossing, but finish crossing if you are already in the road. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/11/) — Even with the walk signal you look both ways, because a car may still be moving or turning. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/12/) — A zebra crossing has black and white stripes on the road. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/13/) — In the UK zebra crossings have flashing orange globes on black and white poles, called Belisha beacons. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/14/) — At a zebra crossing you wait until the traffic has stopped before stepping onto the road. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/15/) — Crossing between parked cars is dangerous because drivers cannot see you and you cannot see them. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/16/) — A driver reversing out of a driveway or a parking space may not see a child behind the car. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/17/) — If you must pass parked cars, stop at their outside edge and look before going on. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/18/) — A green walking signal does not always mean every driver has seen you. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/19/) — Many walkers are hit by cars turning a corner across the crossing. - ← previous: [Crossing the road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/) - next →: [Buses, trains and being seen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)