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title: Even with the walk signal you look both ways, because a car may stil… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics
description: Even with the walk signal you look both ways, because a car may still be moving or turning. Who acts: you, car. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 11

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Even with the walk signal you look both ways, because a car may still be moving or turning.

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**Who acts:** you, car · **What happens:** look, move, turn · **To what, where:** ways

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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 (you, car), 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:11
# text = Even with the walk signal you look both ways, because a car may still be moving or turning.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **look** | present | you | both ways |  |  |  | with the walk signal | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **move** | may · progressive | a car |  |  |  | still |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | a car *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:11`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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