Crossing the road Lesson 41 of the everyday 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 .
0 A car needs time and distance to stop, and its driver may not see a small child, so before crossing you always stop at the kerb, look and listen until the road is clear. 1 The safe routine is: find a safe place to cross, stop at the edge, look both ways and listen, wait until no traffic is coming, then walk straight across, still looking and listening. 2 Which way you look first depends on the side the traffic drives on: you look first towards the lane nearest to you, because those cars reach you first. 3 In the USA and Canada cars drive on the right, so the nearest cars come from your left; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand cars drive on the left, so the nearest cars come from your right. 4 A boy from Ohio visiting London who looks left first, as he does at home, may step out right in front of a bus coming from his right; that is why London paints LOOK RIGHT on the road at many crossings. 5 A boy in Ohio ran into the road after his ball without stopping; a car could not stop in time and hit him, and he spent weeks in hospital with a broken leg. 6 A girl in Manchester stepped out from between two parked vans; the driver coming along could not see her until the last second, and only just managed to swerve. 7 A moving car cannot stop at once; the faster it goes, the longer it takes to stop. 8 Before crossing you stop at the kerb, look both ways and listen for traffic. 9 You cross only when no traffic is coming, and you keep looking and listening while you cross. 10 You walk straight across the road, never run, because running makes you more likely to trip and fall, and never cross diagonally, on a slant, which keeps you in the road longer. 11 In the USA and Canada traffic drives on the right, so you look left first. 12 In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand traffic drives on the left, so you look right first. 13 Headphones and phones take your attention and hearing away from the road. 14 Quiet electric cars can be very hard to hear, so your eyes matter as much as your ears. 15 Young children should cross roads holding an adult's hand. 16 A bend or the top of a hill hides cars from you, and hides you from drivers, so it is a bad place to cross. 17 In the UK the steps of road crossing are taught as the Green Cross Code. 18 A car going at 30 miles per hour needs about 23 metres to stop, which is about five car lengths. 19 A child hit by a car is much more likely to be badly hurt than an adult, because the car hits the head and body. ← previous Thinking it through: the science behind home safetynext → Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/