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title: A zebra crossing has black and white stripes and, in the UK, flashin… — Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: zebra crossing, drivers, people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Traffic lights,
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# Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** zebra crossing, drivers, people, you, traffic · **What happens:** have, flash, stop, wait, step out · **To what, where:** black stripes, orange globes

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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 (zebra crossing, drivers, people, 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:2
# text = 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.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	globes	globe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	really	really	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
38	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a zebra crossing | black stripes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient |
| 2 | **flash** | gerund | a zebra crossing *not said here* | orange globes |  |  |  | on poles; in the UK | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent globe=Patient in uk=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** | should | drivers |  |  |  |  | for people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | present · perfect | the traffic |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **step out** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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:2`.

**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 ×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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