--- title: Cars need time and space to stop, and drivers may not see you; at th… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Cars, drivers, driver. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of --- [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/8/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/) / 8 # Road and railway safety, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Cars, drivers, driver · **What happens:** need, stop, not see, look, listen, wait · **To what, where:** you, kerb, ways, crossings This is a sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» 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: who acts (Cars, drivers, driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:8 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 027-road-and-railway-safety.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 kerb kerb NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:expl 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 35 straight straight ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 across across ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 40 crossings crossing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Cars | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Cars *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **see** | may | drivers | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **stop** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | | | the kerb | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location | | 5 | **look** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **listen** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | both ways | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wait** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | driver | | | | | clear *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **walk** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | | | | | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **use** | infinitive | drivers *not said here* | crossings | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossing=Patient | 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. **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:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:8`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Road and railway safety, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/7/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)