Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 11
Overhead railway wires carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity can jump to you if you just get close.
Who acts: railway wires, electricity, you · What happens: carry, jump, get · To what, where: 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 (railway wires, electricity, 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 | Overhead | overhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 railway | compound |
| 2 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wires | compound |
| 3 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 25,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 25,000 | 25000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 volts | nummod |
| 7 | volts | volt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jump | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jump | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 electricity | det |
| 11 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jump | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 jump | aux |
| 13 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 carry | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 jump | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 jump | advcl |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | railway wires | 25,000 volts | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump | can | the electricity | you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to you=Result | ||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | you | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:11.
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, R8-pos-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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