Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 1

The same trap waits on cliff edges that crumble without warning, on old roofs with skylights that look solid and aren't, and on railways, where quiet fast trains need about a mile to stop, the third rail in parts of the south is always live, and overhead wires carry about 25,000 volts that can jump to you without a touch.

Who acts: same trap, cliff edges, skylights, quiet fast trains, third rail, overhead wires · What happens: wait, crumble, look, need, stop, not be · To what, where: cliff edges, mile, 25,000 volts, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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 (same trap, cliff edges, skylights, quiet fast trains), 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 trap	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trap	amod
3	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waits	nsubj
4	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 edges	case
6	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edges	compound
7	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waits	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 crumble	nsubj
9	crumble	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 edges	acl:relcl
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 warning	case
11	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crumble	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 roofs	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 roofs	case
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 roofs	amod
15	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 warning	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 skylights	case
17	skylights	skylight	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 roofs	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 look	nsubj
19	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 skylights	acl:relcl
20	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 look	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 live	cc
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 live	cop
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 live	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 live	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 railways	cc
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 railways	case
27	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waits	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 railways	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 need	advmod
30	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 trains	amod
31	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 trains	amod
32	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 need	nsubj
33	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 railways	acl:relcl
34	about	about	ADV	_	36 mile	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 mile	det
36	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 need	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 stop	mark
38	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 mile	acl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 railways	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rail	det
41	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 rail	amod
42	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 live	nsubj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 parts	case
44	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 rail	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 south	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 south	det
47	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 parts	nmod
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 live	cop
49	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	50 live	advmod
50	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crumble	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 carry	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 carry	cc
53	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wires	compound
54	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 carry	nsubj
55	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waits	conj
56	about	about	ADV	_	57 25,000	advmod
57	25,000	25000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	58 volts	nummod
58	volts	volt	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 carry	obj
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 jump	nsubj
60	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 jump	aux
61	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 volts	acl:relcl
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 you	case
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	61 jump	obl
64	without	without	ADP	_	66 touch	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 touch	det
66	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 jump	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	present	the same trap			cliff edges	on railways	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on edge=Location
2	crumble	present	cliff edges				without warning	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	look	present	skylights				solid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	need	present	quiet fast trains	a mile				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	stop	to-infinitive	quiet fast trains not said here	a mile not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	not is	present	the third rail in parts of the south				always, live property	tree rules
7	carry	present	overhead wires	25,000 volts				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme
8	jump	can	25,000 volts		you		without a touch	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to you=Result

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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:1.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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