Trains and the Underground, sentence 21
A freight train is a long line of wagons pulled by a strong locomotive, carrying coal, containers, cars or stone; one freight train can take dozens of lorries off the road.
Who acts: freight train, wagons, one freight train · What happens: be, pull, carry, take · To what, where: long line, wagons, coal, dozens, road
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 (freight train, wagons, one freight 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 train | det |
| 2 | freight | freight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 train | compound |
| 3 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 line | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 line | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 line | amod |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wagons | case |
| 9 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 line | nmod |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wagons | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 locomotive | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 locomotive | det |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 locomotive | amod |
| 14 | locomotive | locomotive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 coal | punct |
| 16 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wagons | acl |
| 17 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrying | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 containers | punct |
| 19 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 coal | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cars | punct |
| 21 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 coal | conj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 stone | cc |
| 23 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coal | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 train | nummod |
| 26 | freight | freight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 train | compound |
| 27 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 line | parataxis |
| 30 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 lorries | case |
| 32 | lorries | lorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 dozens | nmod |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 road | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 road | det |
| 35 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 line | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a freight train | a long line | of wagons | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull | participle | wagons not said here | by a strong locomotive | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | wagons not said here | coal and containers and cars or stone | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | can | one freight train | dozens of lorries | the road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme off road=Initial_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:21.
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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