Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 4
If something falls onto the railway tracks, you never climb down; you tell a member of staff.
Who acts: something, you · What happens: fall, not climb down, tell · To what, where: railway tracks, member · 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 (something, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 falls | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 climb | advcl |
| 4 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 7 tracks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tracks | det |
| 6 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tracks | compound |
| 7 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 falls | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 climb | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 climb | advmod |
| 11 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 climb | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 climb | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 member | det |
| 17 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 staff | case |
| 19 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 member | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | something | the railway tracks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto track=Initial_Location | ||||
| 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 |
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:4.
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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