Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 9

A tram takes electricity from an overhead wire through a pole on its roof and runs on rails in the street, so it is quiet and cannot swerve out of the way.

Who acts: tram, electricity · What happens: take, run, be, not swerve · To what, where: electricity, overhead wire, rails, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology 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 (tram, electricity), 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 tram	det
2	tram	tram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 wire	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wire	det
7	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wire	compound
8	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 pole	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pole	det
11	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 roof	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 roof	nmod:poss
14	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 runs	cc
16	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 rails	case
18	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 runs	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 street	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 street	det
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 runs	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 quiet	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 quiet	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 quiet	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 quiet	cop
26	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 takes	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 swerve	cc
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 swerve	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 swerve	advmod
30	swerve	swerve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 quiet	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 way	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 way	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 swerve	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	a tram	electricity	a overhead wire	through a pole; on pole's roof	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme on roof=Destination
2	run	present	a tram not said here		rails	in the street	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rail=Trajectory
3	is	present	electricity			quiet property	tree rules
4	not swerve	can	electricity not said here		the way		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out way=Location

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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:9.

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): no change. 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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