Trains and the Underground, sentence 7
Under big cities, electric trains run in tunnels called the Underground, the Tube, the metro or the subway.
Who acts: electric trains · What happens: run, call · To what, where: big cities, tunnels · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (electric trains), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 cities | case |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 3 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cities | punct |
| 5 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trains | amod |
| 6 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | nsubj |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tunnels | case |
| 9 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | obl |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tunnels | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Underground | det |
| 12 | Underground | Underground | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tube | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tube | det |
| 15 | Tube | tube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Underground | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 metro | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 metro | det |
| 18 | metro | metro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tunnels | appos |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 subway | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 subway | det |
| 21 | subway | subway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 metro | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | electric trains | big cities | in tunnels | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under city=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | call | participle | tunnels not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:7.
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.
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