--- title: Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails. — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures · tree and pragmatics description: Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails. Who acts: you, quick beat, wheels. A sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/) / 9 # Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 9 Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails. **Who acts:** you, quick beat, wheels · **What happens:** read, sound, rush · **To what, where:** Sound, rails This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english 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 (you, quick beat, wheels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:9 # text = Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.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): no change 1 Read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | Sound | | | | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **sound** | present | the quick beat | | | | | like wheels | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **rush** | gerund | wheels *not said here* | | | rails | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rail=Trajectory | 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:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:9`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/7/) - next →: [Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/)