--- title: So if you drop something onto the tracks, you never climb down; you… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, member. 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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 (you, member), 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:1 # text = 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. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 onto onto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 down down ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 24 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | something | | the tracks | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme onto track=Destination | | 2 | **not** **climb down** | present | you | | | | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | a member of staff | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent member=Recipient | | 4 | **have** | present | a member of staff | safe ways | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | a member of staff *not said here* | member | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:1`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/0/) - next →: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/)