--- title: A train can take more than a mile to stop, so it cannot stop for som… — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics description: A train can take more than a mile to stop, so it cannot stop for someone on the track; you cross railway lines only by a bridge or a proper crossing. Who acts: train, mile, 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 (train, mile, 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:22 # text = A train can take more than a mile to stop, so it cannot stop for someone on the track; you cross railway lines only by a bridge or a proper crossing. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 8 advmod _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 track track NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj 27 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | can | a train | a mile | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a train *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **stop** | can | mile | | | | | for someone | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **cross** | present | you | railway lines | | | | by a bridge or a proper crossing | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | 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:22`. **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, 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, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/21/) - next →: [The beach and the sea, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/)