Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 14
A fast train rushing past pushes and pulls the air, which can drag someone standing too close to the edge.
Who acts: fast train, air · What happens: rush, push, pull, drag, stand · To what, where: air, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» 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 (fast train, air), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 train | det |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 train | amod |
| 3 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushes | nsubj |
| 4 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 train | acl |
| 5 | past | past | ADV | _ | 4 rushing | amod |
| 6 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pulls | cc |
| 8 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pushes | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulls | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drag | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 drag | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 drag | aux |
| 14 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 air | acl:relcl |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 drag | obj |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 someone | acl |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 close | advmod |
| 18 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 standing | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 edge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 edge | det |
| 21 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 close | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pushes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | a fast train not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | push | present | a fast train | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pull | present | a fast train not said here | the air | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drag | can | the air | someone | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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