Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 5
The third rail carries enough electricity to kill, so you never go near the tracks.
Who acts: third rail, you · What happens: carry, kill, not go · To what, where: enough electricity, tracks
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 (third rail, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rail | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 rail | amod |
| 3 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | nsubj |
| 4 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 electricity | amod |
| 6 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 electricity | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 go | advmod |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carries | conj |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 tracks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tracks | det |
| 16 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | the third rail | enough electricity | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | the third rail not said here | enough electricity not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not go | present | you | the tracks | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near track=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:5.
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): R6-punct-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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