--- title: On a train platform you stand behind the yellow or white line, let p… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics description: On a train platform you stand behind the yellow or white line, let people off before you get on, and mind the gap between the train and the platform. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:2 # text = On a train platform you stand behind the yellow or white line, let people off before you get on, and mind the gap between the train and the platform. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 platform platform NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 14 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 20 on on ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 mind mind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 between between ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 platform platform NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | you | | | a train platform | | behind the yellow line | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on platform=Location | | 2 | **let off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | people | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **get on** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **mind** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the gap | | | | between the train and the platform | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme | 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:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Buses, trains and being seen, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/1/) - next →: [Buses, trains and being seen, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/)