--- title: A teenager in New York climbed down onto the subway tracks to get hi… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: teenager, electricity. 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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 (teenager, electricity), 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:15 # text = 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. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teenager teenager NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 flat _ _ 5 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 onto onto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 subway subway NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **climb down** | past | a teenager in New York | | | the subway tracks | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto track=Trajectory | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | a teenager in New York *not said here* | teenager's dropped phone | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer phone=Stimulus | | 3 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **touch** | past | teenager | the third rail | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rail=Co-Theme | | 5 | **burn** | past · passive | the electricity | | | | | badly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:15`. **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: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/14/) - next →: [Trains, the Underground and subways, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/)