Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism, sentence 13
Railway lines are deadly: modern trains are fast and quiet, some rails carry deadly electricity, people have died going onto tracks to paint, and trespassing on railways is illegal.
Who acts: Railway lines, modern trains, rails, people, trespassing · What happens: be, carry, die, go, paint, trespass · To what, where: deadly electricity, tracks, railways
This is a sentence of the lesson «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» of the arts 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 (Railway lines, modern trains, rails, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lines | compound |
| 2 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deadly | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deadly | cop |
| 4 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 fast | punct |
| 6 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trains | amod |
| 7 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fast | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | cop |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deadly | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 quiet | cc |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fast | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 rails | det |
| 14 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | parataxis |
| 16 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 electricity | amod |
| 17 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 died | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 died | aux |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 deadly | parataxis |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 died | xcomp |
| 23 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 24 tracks | case |
| 24 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 going | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 paint | mark |
| 26 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 illegal | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trespassing | cc |
| 29 | trespassing | trespass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 illegal | csubj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 railways | case |
| 31 | railways | railway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 trespassing | obl |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 illegal | cop |
| 33 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 died | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deadly | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Railway lines | deadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | modern trains | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | modern trains not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | carry | present | some rails | deadly electricity | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | present · perfect | people | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | gerund | people not said here | tracks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto track=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | paint | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | trespass | gerund | railways | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | is | present | trespassing | illegal property | tree rules |
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, 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:arts:019-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism.lesson:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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.
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