--- title: The same trap waits on cliff edges that crumble without warning, on… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics description: The same trap waits on cliff edges that crumble without warning, on old roofs with skylights that look solid and aren't, and on railways, where quiet fast trains need about a mile to stop, the third rail in parts of the south is always live, and overhead wires carry about 25,000 volts that can jump --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, rai…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/) / 1 # Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 1 The same trap waits on cliff edges that crumble without warning, on old roofs with skylights that look solid and aren't, and on railways, where quiet fast trains need about a mile to stop, the third rail in parts of the south is always live, and overhead wires carry about 25,000 volts that can jump to you without a touch. **Who acts:** same trap, cliff edges, skylights, quiet fast trains, third rail, overhead wires · **What happens:** wait, crumble, look, need, stop, not be · **To what, where:** cliff edges, mile, 25,000 volts, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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 (same trap, cliff edges, skylights, quiet fast trains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:1 # text = The same trap waits on cliff edges that crumble without warning, on old roofs with skylights that look solid and aren't, and on railways, where quiet fast trains need about a mile to stop, the third rail in parts of the south is always live, and overhead wires carry about 25,000 volts that can jump to you without a touch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 crumble crumble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 without without ADP IN _ 11 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 11 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 skylights skylight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 30 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 34 about about ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 42 amod _ _ 42 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 50 advmod _ _ 50 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 53 overhead overhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nsubj _ _ 55 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 56 about about ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=58:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 57 25,000 25000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ _ 58 volts volt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=55:obl 59 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 61 nsubj _ _ 60 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 61 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 acl:relcl _ _ 62 to to ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 61 obl _ _ 64 without without ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 67 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=55:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | the same trap | | | cliff edges | | on railways | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on edge=Location | | 2 | **crumble** | present | cliff edges | | | | | without warning | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **look** | present | skylights | | | | | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **need** | present | quiet fast trains | a mile | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | quiet fast trains *not said here* | a mile *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | the third rail in parts of the south | | | | | always, live *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **carry** | present | overhead wires | 25,000 volts | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme | | 8 | **jump** | can | 25,000 volts | | you | | | without a touch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to you=Result | 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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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. 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