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title: Electricity from overhead railway wires can jump through the air to… — Railway crossings, maps and addresses · tree and pragmatics
description: Electricity from overhead railway wires can jump through the air to a person nearby without them touching the wire. Who acts: Electricity, wires. 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 pragmati
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# Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 18

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Electricity from overhead railway wires can jump through the air to a person nearby without them touching the wire.

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**Who acts:** Electricity, wires · **What happens:** jump, touch · **To what, where:** air, wire

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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 (Electricity, wires), 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:18
# text = Electricity from overhead railway wires can jump through the air to a person nearby without them touching the wire.
# 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 ×1
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	overhead	overhead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **jump** | can | Electricity from overhead railway wires |  |  | the air |  | to a person *result*; nearby *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to person=Result |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | wires *= wire* | the wire |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme |

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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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.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): R5-strong ×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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