Trains and the Underground, sentence 11

A live third rail or an overhead wire can kill without any train in sight; overhead wires in Britain carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity can jump to someone who only comes close.

Who acts: live third rail, overhead wires, electricity · What happens: kill, carry, jump, come · To what, where: 25,000 volts

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 (live third rail, overhead wires, 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	4 rail	det
2	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rail	amod
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 rail	amod
4	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 wire	cc
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wire	det
7	overhead	overhead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wire	amod
8	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rail	conj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 train	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 train	det
13	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 sight	case
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 train	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wires	punct
17	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wires	compound
18	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carry	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Britain	case
20	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wires	nmod
21	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	parataxis
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 25,000	advmod
23	25,000	25000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 volts	nummod
24	volts	volt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carry	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 jump	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 jump	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 electricity	det
28	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jump	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 jump	aux
30	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 carry	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 someone	case
32	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 jump	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 comes	nsubj
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 comes	advmod
35	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 someone	acl:relcl
36	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 comes	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	can	a live third rail or a overhead wire		without any train in sight	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	carry	present	overhead wires in Britain	25,000 volts		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme
3	jump	can	the electricity		to someone result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to someone=Result
4	come	present			close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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 ×2, R7-rel-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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