Trains and the Underground, sentence 17

In the cab the driver controls the speed with a lever and watches the signals; a safety pedal or button must be pressed regularly, or the train stops by itself.

Who acts: driver, train · What happens: control, watch, press, stop · To what, where: speed, cab, signals, safety pedal

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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	3 cab	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cab	det
3	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 controls	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 driver	det
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 controls	nsubj
6	controls	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 speed	det
8	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 controls	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 lever	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lever	det
11	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 controls	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watches	cc
13	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 controls	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 signals	det
15	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 watches	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 pressed	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pedal	det
18	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pedal	compound
19	pedal	pedal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pressed	nsubj:pass
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 button	cc
21	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pedal	conj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pressed	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 pressed	aux:pass
24	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 controls	conj
25	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	24 pressed	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stops	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 stops	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 train	det
29	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stops	nsubj
30	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pressed	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 itself	case
32	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 stops	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 controls	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	control	present	the driver	the speed	the cab	with a lever	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Theme
2	watch	present	the driver not said here	the signals			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
3	press	must · passive		a safety pedal or button		regularly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	stop	present	the train			by train	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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