--- title: Railway lines are deadly: modern trains are fast and quiet, some rai… — Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism · tree and pragmatics description: Railway lines are deadly: modern trains are fast and quiet, some rails carry deadly electricity, people have died going onto tracks to paint, and trespassing on railways is illegal. Who acts: Railway lines, modern trains, rails, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Railway lines, modern trains, rails, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:019-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism.lesson:13 # text = Railway lines are deadly: modern trains are fast and quiet, some rails carry deadly electricity, people have died going onto tracks to paint, and trespassing on railways is illegal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 019-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 onto onto ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 paint paint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 trespassing trespass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 csubj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 illegal illegal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Railway lines | | | | | deadly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | modern trains | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | modern trains *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | present | some rails | deadly electricity | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | | 5 | **die** | present · perfect | people | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **go** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | tracks | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto track=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **paint** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **trespass** | gerund | | | | railways | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | present | trespassing | | | | | illegal *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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:019-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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