--- title: Trains, the Underground and subways — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Trains, the Underground and subways», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Railway tracks are never a place for people: trains come fast and cannot stop quickly, and many lines carry deadly electricity in a t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Trains, the Underground and subways # Trains, the Underground and subways Lesson 270 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/0/) — Railway tracks are never a place for people: trains come fast and cannot stop quickly, and many lines carry deadly electricity in a third rail beside the running rails. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/1/) — So if you drop something onto the tracks, you never climb down; you tell a member of staff, who has safe ways to get it. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/2/) — Stations are big but logical: in London you follow the line's name and colour and the last station in your direction, and on escalators you stand on the right so people in a hurry can walk on the left. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/4/) — If something falls onto the railway tracks, you never climb down; you tell a member of staff. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/5/) — The third rail carries enough electricity to kill, so you never go near the tracks. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/6/) — You step carefully over the gap between the train and the platform, because a foot can slip into it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/7/) — A family makes a plan before travelling in case they get separated, such as getting off at the next station and waiting on the platform, or staying on and telling staff. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/8/) — You buy a ticket before boarding or use the right card, and keep it for checking, because travelling without one can mean a fine. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/9/) — On the London Underground you find your way by the line's name and colour and the last station in your direction. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/10/) — On London escalators people stand on the right and walk on the left. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/11/) — On an escalator you hold the handrail, keep shoes and laces away from the sides, and step off at the end. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/12/) — In a crowded carriage you take off your backpack and hold it in front of you or at your feet, which gives others more space and stops it bumping them. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/13/) — You do not touch an unattended bag on a platform; you tell staff, who will check it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/14/) — People with prams, wheelchairs and luggage go first in a station lift, because they cannot use stairs or escalators. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/15/) — A teenager in New York climbed down onto the subway tracks to get his dropped phone; he touched the third rail and was badly burned by the electricity. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/16/) — A small boy in London had his foot slip into the gap between the train and the platform; staff stopped the train and freed him, but his leg was bruised and he was very frightened. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/17/) — The electricity in a third rail or overhead wire can kill a person in a moment, and it is always switched on. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/18/) — A train needs hundreds of metres to stop, so a driver who sees someone on the tracks usually cannot stop in time. - ← previous: [Crash forces, school buses and public buses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/) - next →: [Airports and planes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)