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title: Trains cannot stop quickly, and railway lines may be electrified, so… — Railway crossings, maps and addresses · tree and pragmatics
description: Trains cannot stop quickly, and railway lines may be electrified, so you never play on or near them. Who acts: Trains, you. 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 of every clause.
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# Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 6

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Trains cannot stop quickly, and railway lines may be electrified, so you never play on or near them.

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**Who acts:** Trains, you · **What happens:** not stop, electrify, not play · **To what, where:** railway lines

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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 (Trains, you), 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:6
# text = Trains cannot stop quickly, and railway lines may be electrified, so you never play on or near them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	electrified	electrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | can | Trains |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **electrify** | may · passive |  | railway lines |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **play** | present | you |  |  |  |  | on lines *= line* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:6`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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