Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 18
Electricity from overhead railway wires can jump through the air to a person nearby without them touching the wire.
Who acts: Electricity, wires · What happens: jump, touch · To what, where: air, wire
This is a sentence of the lesson «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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, wires), 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 | Electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 wires | case |
| 3 | overhead | overhead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wires | amod |
| 4 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wires | compound |
| 5 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Electricity | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 jump | aux |
| 7 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 person | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | obl |
| 14 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 7 jump | advmod |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 touching | mark |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touching | nsubj |
| 17 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 jump | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wire | det |
| 19 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touching | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 jump | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | can | Electricity from overhead railway wires | the air | to a person result; nearby property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to person=Result | |||
| 2 | touch | gerund | wires = wire | the wire | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.lesson:18.
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. 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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