Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 0

Railway tracks are never a place for people: trains come fast and cannot stop quickly, and many lines carry deadly electricity in a third rail beside the running rails.

Who acts: Railway tracks, trains, many lines · What happens: not be, come, not stop, carry · To what, where: place, deadly electricity, third rail

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» 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 (Railway tracks, trains, many lines), 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 tracks	compound
2	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 place	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	parataxis
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 come	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stop	cc
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stop	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stop	advmod
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 stop	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carry	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carry	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lines	amod
21	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carry	nsubj
22	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	conj
23	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 electricity	amod
24	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carry	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 rail	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rail	det
27	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 rail	amod
28	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carry	obl
29	beside	beside	ADP	_	32 rails	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rails	det
31	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rails	compound
32	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rail	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Railway tracks	a place		for people	tree rules
2	come	present	trains			fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not stop	can	trains not said here			quickly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	carry	present	many lines	deadly electricity	a third rail beside the running rails		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent electricity=Value in rail=Location

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:everyday:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:0.

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. 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.

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