Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 15

A teenager in New York climbed down onto the subway tracks to get his dropped phone; he touched the third rail and was badly burned by the electricity.

Who acts: teenager, electricity · What happens: climb down, get, drop, touch, burn · To what, where: subway tracks, dropped phone, 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 (teenager, electricity), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teenager	det
2	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 York	case
4	New	New	PROPN	_	5 York	flat
5	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 teenager	nmod
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 climbed	advmod
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 tracks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tracks	det
10	subway	subway	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tracks	compound
11	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climbed	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 climbed	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 phone	nmod:poss
15	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 phone	amod
16	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 touched	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 touched	nsubj
19	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climbed	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rail	det
21	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 rail	amod
22	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 touched	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 burned	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 burned	aux:pass
25	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 burned	advmod
26	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 touched	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 electricity	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 electricity	det
29	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burned	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb down	past	a teenager in New York		the subway tracks	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto track=Trajectory
2	get	to-infinitive	a teenager in New York not said here	teenager's dropped phone			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer phone=Stimulus
3	drop	participle					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	touch	past	teenager	the third rail			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rail=Co-Theme
5	burn	past · passive	the electricity			badly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:15.

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): no change. 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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