Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 9

Putting coins or anything else on the track is dangerous and can derail a train, which means knock it off its rails, and people on it can be hurt.

Who acts: Putting · What happens: put, be, derail, mean, knock off, hurt · To what, where: coins, train, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Putting), 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	Putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 dangerous	csubj
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Putting	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 anything	cc
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 coins	conj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 anything	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 track	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 track	det
8	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anything	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dangerous	cop
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 derail	cc
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 derail	aux
13	derail	derail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dangerous	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 train	det
15	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 derail	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 means	nsubj
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 derail	parataxis
19	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 means	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knock	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	19 knock	compound:prt
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rails	nmod:poss
23	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 knock	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hurt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hurt	cc
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hurt	nsubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 people	nmod
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hurt	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 hurt	aux:pass
31	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 means	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	gerund		coins		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent coin=Goal
2	is	present	Putting		dangerous property	tree rules
3	derail	can	Putting not said here	a train		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent train=Patient
4	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	knock off	infinitive		train		tree rules
6	hurt	can · passive		people on train		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.lesson:9.

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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