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title: A fast train rushing past pushes and pulls the air, which can drag s… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics
description: A fast train rushing past pushes and pulls the air, which can drag someone standing too close to the edge. Who acts: fast train, air. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 14

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A fast train rushing past pushes and pulls the air, which can drag someone standing too close to the edge.

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**Who acts:** fast train, air · **What happens:** rush, push, pull, drag, stand · **To what, where:** air, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» 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 (fast train, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:14
# text = A fast train rushing past pushes and pulls the air, which can drag someone standing too close to the edge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	past	past	ADV	RB	_	4	amod	_	_
6	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **rush** | gerund | a fast train *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | present | a fast train |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pull** | present | a fast train *not said here* | the air |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 4 | **drag** | can | the air | someone |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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