Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars, sentence 2

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, traffic · What happens: have, flash, stop, wait, step out · To what, where: black stripes, orange globes

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

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/2/