--- title: Road and railway safety — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Road and railway safety», a lesson of the technology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A car, a bus or a train is a heavy machine that needs time and space to stop, and its driver can only stop for what they can see. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / Road and railway safety # Road and railway safety Lesson 27 of the technology course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/0/) — A car, a bus or a train is a heavy machine that needs time and space to stop, and its driver can only stop for what they can see. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/1/) — Almost every road rule for children comes from those two facts: give machines room, and make sure you are seen. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/2/) — Think of the van parked outside school. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/3/) — You are shorter than its bonnet, so a driver coming along the road cannot see you behind it, and you cannot see the driver either. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/4/) — Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/5/) — Cars that reverse are even harder: drivers looking back over a boot or out of a driveway cannot see low down, which is why car parks and driveways are not places to play. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/6/) — Railways add their own dangers: trains are fast and quiet, a second one can follow the first, and live rails and wires can kill without any train at all. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/7/) — The rules are short: never go on the line, never cross when lights flash, wait. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/8/) — Cars need time and space to stop, and drivers may not see you; at the kerb, stop, look and listen both ways, wait until it is clear, walk straight across, and use crossings where you can. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/9/) — Children can find it hard to judge how fast a car is coming, which is one more reason to cross at a crossing. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/11/) — Small children are lower than a car bonnet, so drivers cannot see them between parked cars; never step out between parked cars, find a clear place to cross. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/12/) — At a level crossing, never cross when the lights flash or the barriers are down; wait until they go up, because a second train may come, and a fast train can take more than a kilometre to stop. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/13/) — Never go onto railway tracks or climb on trains, wagons or railway bridges; overhead wires can carry 25,000 volts and the electricity can jump to someone close by. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/14/) — It is dangerous and also against the law. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/15/) — In a car park, hold an adult's hand and walk along the side, not behind cars; white lights at the back of a car mean it is about to reverse. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/16/) — Wait for the bus to stop before getting on, never run after a moving bus, and never cross right in front of a bus, because the driver cannot see small children close to the front; after getting off, wait until the bus has gone so you can see the road clearly before crossing. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/17/) — At night, bright or reflective clothes and a light help drivers see you far earlier than dark clothes do; that is why school bags have reflective strips. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/18/) — Cars back out of driveways where drivers cannot see low down; many accidents to very young children happen on home driveways, so driveways are not for playing. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/19/) — Headphones and phones hide the sound of cars, bikes and trains, and electric cars are especially quiet; take headphones off and put the phone away when crossing. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/20/) — A bus can be about 12 metres long and a family car about 4 metres. - ← previous: [Escalators and lifts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/) - next →: [Diggers, cranes and cement mixers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/) - ↑ back to [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/)