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title: If you must pass parked cars, stop at their outside edge and look be… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics
description: If you must pass parked cars, stop at their outside edge and look before going on. Who acts: you. 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 17

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If you must pass parked cars, stop at their outside edge and look before going on.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** pass, park, stop, look, go on · **To what, where:** parked cars, outside edge

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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), 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:17
# text = If you must pass parked cars, stop at their outside edge and look before going on.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
5	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
14	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | you | parked cars |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory |
| 2 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | cars's outside edge |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go on** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «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:17`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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