Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 1

So if you drop something onto the tracks, you never climb down; you tell a member of staff, who has safe ways to get it.

Who acts: you, member · What happens: drop, not climb down, tell, have, get · To what, where: something, tracks, member, safe ways · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, member), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 climb	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 drop	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 drop	nsubj
4	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 climb	advcl
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 drop	obj
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 tracks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tracks	det
8	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drop	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drop	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 climb	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 climb	advmod
12	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 climb	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 climb	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 member	det
18	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 staff	case
20	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 member	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 member	acl:relcl
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ways	amod
25	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 has	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ways	acl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 climb	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop a condition, not said to happen	present	you	something	the tracks		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme onto track=Destination
2	not climb down	present	you			down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	you	a member of staff			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent member=Recipient
4	have	present	a member of staff	safe ways			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	get	to-infinitive	a member of staff not said here	member			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:1.

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, R8-pos-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.

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