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title: At a zebra crossing you wait until the traffic has stopped before st… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics
description: At a zebra crossing you wait until the traffic has stopped before stepping onto the road. Who acts: you, traffic. 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 14

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At a zebra crossing you wait until the traffic has stopped before stepping onto the road.

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**Who acts:** you, traffic · **What happens:** wait, stop, step · **To what, where:** zebra crossing, road

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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, traffic), 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:14
# text = At a zebra crossing you wait until the traffic has stopped before stepping onto the road.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **wait** | present | you |  |  | a zebra crossing |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=Location |
| 2 | **stop** | present · perfect | the traffic |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **step** | gerund | the traffic *not said here* |  |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto road=Trajectory |

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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:14`.

**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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