Trains and the Underground, sentence 1
The rails steer the wheels, so the driver can only make the train go faster or slower; a train can never swerve round anything on the line.
Who acts: rails, driver, train · What happens: steer, make, go, not swerve · To what, where: wheels, train, anything
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» 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 (rails, driver, train), 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 | 2 rails | det |
| 2 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 steer | nsubj |
| 3 | steer | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheels | det |
| 5 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 steer | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 make | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 driver | det |
| 9 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 steer | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 train | det |
| 14 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | xcomp |
| 16 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 go | xcomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 slower | cc |
| 18 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 faster | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 swerve | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 train | det |
| 21 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 swerve | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 swerve | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 swerve | advmod |
| 24 | swerve | swerve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | parataxis |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 anything | case |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 swerve | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 line | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 line | det |
| 29 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 anything | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 steer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steer | present | the rails | the wheels | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | can | the driver | the train | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the train not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not swerve | can | a train | anything | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round anything=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:021-trains-and-the-underground.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): 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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