--- title: Railway tracks are never a place for people: trains come fast and ca… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Railway tracks, trains, many lines. 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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 tracks, trains, many lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 270-trains-and-subways.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 17 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 amod _ _ 28 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 beside beside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 running running NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Railway tracks | a place | | | | for people | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | trains | | | | | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **stop** | can | trains *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **carry** | present | many lines | deadly electricity | | a third rail beside the running rails | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent electricity=Value in rail=Location | 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:everyday:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Crash forces, school buses and public…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/18/) - next →: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/)