Trains and the Underground, sentence 6
To keep trains apart, the line is cut into sections, and a signal shows red while a train is in the section ahead.
Who acts: signal, train · What happens: keep, cut, show, be · To what, where: trains, line, sections, section
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 (signal, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 keep | mark |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cut | advcl |
| 3 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keep | obj |
| 4 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 keep | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux:pass |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sections | case |
| 11 | sections | section | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shows | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shows | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 signal | det |
| 15 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shows | nsubj |
| 16 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | conj |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shows | xcomp |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 section | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 train | det |
| 20 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 section | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 section | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 section | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 section | det |
| 24 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shows | advcl |
| 25 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 24 section | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | 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 | keep | to-infinitive | trains | apart property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | present · passive | the line | sections | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into section=Product | ||||
| 3 | show | present | a signal | red property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a train | the section | ahead property | tree rules |
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:6.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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