--- title: A train needs hundreds of metres to stop, so a driver who sees someo… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics description: A train needs hundreds of metres to stop, so a driver who sees someone on the tracks usually cannot stop in time. Who acts: train, driver. 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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 (train, driver), 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:18 # text = A train needs hundreds of metres to stop, so a driver who sees someone on the tracks usually cannot stop in time. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 9 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 usually usually ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a train | hundreds of metres | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hundred=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a train *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **see** | present | a driver | someone | | the tracks | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **stop** | can | a driver | | | | time | usually *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/17/) - next →: [Airports and planes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/270-trains-and-subways/)