Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 22

A train can take more than a mile to stop, so it cannot stop for someone on the track; you cross railway lines only by a bridge or a proper crossing.

Who acts: train, mile, you · What happens: take, stop, not stop, cross · To what, where: mile, railway lines

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 (train, mile, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 train	det
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 mile	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mile	det
8	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stop	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 stop	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stop	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stop	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stop	advmod
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 someone	case
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 stop	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 track	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 track	det
21	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 someone	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 cross	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 cross	nsubj
24	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
25	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lines	compound
26	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cross	obj
27	only	only	ADV	_	24 cross	advmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 bridge	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bridge	det
30	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cross	obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 crossing	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 crossing	det
33	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 crossing	amod
34	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bridge	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	can	a train	a mile		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	a train not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	not stop	can	mile		for someone	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	cross	present	you	railway lines	by a bridge or a proper crossing	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:22.

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, 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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