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title: The edge of a train platform is dangerous; people who fall onto the… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics
description: The edge of a train platform is dangerous; people who fall onto the tracks can be killed by trains or by the electric rail, so you stand behind the yellow line and never go down onto the tracks, even for a dropped phone: you tell the staff. Who acts: edge, people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Good
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# Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 22

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The edge of a train platform is dangerous; people who fall onto the tracks can be killed by trains or by the electric rail, so you stand behind the yellow line and never go down onto the tracks, even for a dropped phone: you tell the staff.

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**Who acts:** edge, people, you · **What happens:** be, fall, kill, stand, not go down, drop · **To what, where:** tracks, people, yellow line, staff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» of the everyday 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 (edge, people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:22
# text = The edge of a train platform is dangerous; people who fall onto the tracks can be killed by trains or by the electric rail, so you stand behind the yellow line and never go down onto the tracks, even for a dropped phone: you tell the staff.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 225-public-transport-and-borrowing.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
30	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	iobj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the edge of a train platform |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | people |  |  | the tracks |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto track=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **kill** | can · passive |  | people |  |  |  | by trains or the electric rail | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | present | you |  |  | the yellow line |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind line=Location |
| 5 | **not** **go down** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the tracks |  | for a dropped phone; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **drop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | the staff |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient |

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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.

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**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): R8-pos-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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