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title: The safest place to cross is a crossing: drivers expect people there… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics
description: The safest place to cross is a crossing: drivers expect people there and the crossing gives you a turn to walk. Who acts: safest place, drivers, crossing. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 0

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The safest place to cross is a crossing: drivers expect people there and the crossing gives you a turn to walk.

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**Who acts:** safest place, drivers, crossing · **What happens:** cross, be, expect, give, walk · **To what, where:** crossing, people, turn, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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 (safest place, drivers, crossing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:0
# text = The safest place to cross is a crossing: drivers expect people there and the crossing gives you a turn to walk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | to-infinitive | the safest place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the safest place | a crossing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** | present | drivers | people |  | there |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | the crossing | a turn | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient turn=Theme |
| 5 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the crossing *not said here* | a turn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:042-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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