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title: Putting coins or anything else on the track is dangerous and can der… — Railway crossings, maps and addresses · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting coins or anything else on the track is dangerous and can derail a train, which means knock it off its rails, and people on it can be hurt. Who acts: Putting. A sentence of the lesson «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Railway crossings, maps and addresses, sentence 9

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Putting coins or anything else on the track is dangerous and can derail a train, which means knock it off its rails, and people on it can be hurt.

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**Who acts:** Putting · **What happens:** put, be, derail, mean, knock off, hurt · **To what, where:** coins, train, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Putting), 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:9
# text = Putting coins or anything else on the track is dangerous and can derail a train, which means knock it off its rails, and people on it can be hurt.
# 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): no change
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	derail	derail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund |  | coins |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent coin=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | present | Putting |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **derail** | can | Putting *not said here* | a train |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent train=Patient |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **knock off** | infinitive |  | train |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hurt** | can · passive |  | people on train |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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): no change. **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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