Trains and the Underground, sentence 14
Ticket barriers read paper tickets, cards or phones and then open; the gates close fast, so nobody should squeeze through behind someone else.
Who acts: Ticket barriers, gates, nobody · What happens: read, open, close, squeeze · To what, where: paper tickets, someone
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 (Ticket barriers, gates, nobody), 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 | Ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 barriers | compound |
| 2 | barriers | barrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tickets | compound |
| 5 | tickets | ticket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cards | punct |
| 7 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tickets | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 phones | cc |
| 9 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tickets | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 open | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | _ | 12 open | advmod |
| 12 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gates | det |
| 15 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 close | nsubj |
| 16 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | parataxis |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 close | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 squeeze | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 squeeze | advmod |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 squeeze | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 squeeze | aux |
| 22 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 close | conj |
| 23 | through | through | ADV | _ | 22 squeeze | advmod |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 someone | case |
| 25 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 squeeze | obl |
| 26 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 someone | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | Ticket barriers | paper tickets and cards or phones | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Topic | ||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | Ticket barriers not said here | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | close | present | the gates | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | squeeze | should | nobody | someone | through property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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): 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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