--- title: A train can take more than a kilometre to stop, so a driver who sees… — Railway crossings, maps and addresses · tree and pragmatics description: A train can take more than a kilometre to stop, so a driver who sees someone on the line usually cannot stop in time. Who acts: train, driver. A sentence of the lesson «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Railway crossings, maps and addresses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/) / 17 # Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 17 A train can take more than a kilometre to stop, so a driver who sees someone on the line usually cannot stop in time. **Who acts:** train, driver · **What happens:** take, stop, see, not stop · **To what, where:** more, someone, line This is a sentence of the lesson «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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 (train, driver), 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:17 # text = A train can take more than a kilometre to stop, so a driver who sees someone on the line usually cannot stop in time. # 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): R5-strong ×2, 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 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | can | a train | more | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument more=Theme kilometre=Destination | | 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 line | | | 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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, 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: [Railway crossings, maps and addresses, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/16/) - next →: [Railway crossings, maps and addresses, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/)