--- title: A train is heavy and fast and needs a very long way to stop, and it… — Railway crossings, maps and addresses · tree and pragmatics description: A train is heavy and fast and needs a very long way to stop, and it is faster and closer than it looks, so at a level crossing or railroad crossing you stop when the lights flash, the bells ring or the barriers come down. Who acts: train, it, level crossing, lights. 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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, it, level crossing, lights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.lesson:0 # text = A train is heavy and fast and needs a very long way to stop, and it is faster and closer than it looks, so at a level crossing or railroad crossing you stop when the lights flash, the bells ring or the barriers come down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 conj _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 railroad railroad NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obj 35 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:nmod 39 flash flash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:det 42 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 ring ring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 barriers barrier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 47 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 48 down down ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is** | present | a train | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a train *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | a train *not said here* | a long way | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a train *not said here* | a long way *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | train | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | train *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | present | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **cross** | gerund | a level crossing or railroad *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **stop** | present | a level crossing or railroad | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 10 | **flash** | present | the lights | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **ring** | present | the bells | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **come down** | present | the barriers | | | | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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