Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 17
The electricity in a third rail or overhead wire can kill a person in a moment, and it is always switched on.
Who acts: electricity · What happens: kill, switch on · To what, where: person, electricity
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 electricity | det |
| 2 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rail | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rail | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 rail | amod |
| 6 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 electricity | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 wire | cc |
| 8 | overhead | overhead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wire | amod |
| 9 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rail | conj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 switched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 switched | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 switched | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 switched | aux:pass |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 switched | advmod |
| 22 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 kill | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 switched | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | can | the electricity in a third rail or overhead wire | a person | moment | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | |||
| 2 | switch on | present · passive | electricity | always property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:17.
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): 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.
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