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title: The third rail carries enough electricity to kill, so you never go n… — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics
description: The third rail carries enough electricity to kill, so you never go near the tracks. Who acts: third rail, you. A sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 5

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The third rail carries enough electricity to kill, so you never go near the tracks.

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**Who acts:** third rail, you · **What happens:** carry, kill, not go · **To what, where:** enough electricity, tracks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third rail, you), 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:5
# text = The third rail carries enough electricity to kill, so you never go near the tracks.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | the third rail | enough electricity |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | the third rail *not said here* | enough electricity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **go** | present | you |  |  | the tracks |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near track=Location |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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