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title: Wherever you are, the safe habit is the same: cross on the green fig… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever you are, the safe habit is the same: cross on the green figure, still look both ways, and never run in front of or behind a bus. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 4

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Wherever you are, the safe habit is the same: cross on the green figure, still look both ways, and never run in front of or behind a bus.

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**What happens:** be, cross, look, not run · **To what, where:** green figure, ways, front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:4
# text = Wherever you are, the safe habit is the same: cross on the green figure, still look both ways, and never run in front of or behind a bus.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	28	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | infinitive |  |  |  | the green figure |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  | both ways |  |  | still |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **run** | infinitive |  |  |  | front and a bus |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:4`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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