Trains and the Underground, sentence 8
Electric trains take their power from overhead wires or from a third rail beside the track; diesel trains carry their own engine.
Who acts: Electric trains, diesel trains · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: power, overhead wires, own engine
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, diesel 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 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trains | amod |
| 2 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 power | nmod:poss |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 wires | case |
| 7 | overhead | overhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wires | compound |
| 8 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 rail | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 rail | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rail | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 rail | amod |
| 13 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wires | conj |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 track | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 track | det |
| 16 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rail | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 18 | diesel | diesel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trains | compound |
| 19 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 engine | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 engine | amod |
| 23 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | 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 | take | present | Electric trains | tunnels's power | overhead wires or a third rail beside the track | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent power=Theme from wire=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | carry | present | diesel trains | tunnels's own engine | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Theme |
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:8.
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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