Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 12

Many lines in the south of England have a third rail carrying about 750 volts, which is always live (full of electricity), train or no train.

Who acts: Many lines, third rail · What happens: have, carry, be · To what, where: third rail, 750 volts

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 (Many lines, third rail), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lines	amod
2	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 south	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 south	det
5	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lines	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 south	nmod
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rail	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 rail	amod
11	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 rail	acl
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 750	advmod
14	750	750	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 volts	nummod
15	volts	volt	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carrying	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 live	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 live	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 live	cop
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 live	advmod
20	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rail	acl:relcl
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 full	punct
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 live	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 electricity	case
24	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	obl
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 full	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 train	punct
27	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rail	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 train	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 train	det
30	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 train	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many lines in the south of England	a third rail train or no train		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Patient
2	carry	gerund	a third rail train or no train not said here	750 volts		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme
3	is	present	a third rail train or no train		always, live property	tree rules

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:12.

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 ×2. 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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