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title: Overhead railway wires carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Overhead railway wires carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity can jump to you if you just get close. Who acts: railway wires, electricity, you. A sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 11

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Overhead railway wires carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity can jump to you if you just get close.

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**Who acts:** railway wires, electricity, you · **What happens:** carry, jump, get · **To what, where:** 25,000 volts, you

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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 (railway wires, electricity, you), 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:11
# text = Overhead railway wires carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity can jump to you if you just get close.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Overhead	overhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	25,000	25000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	volts	volt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **carry** | present | railway wires | 25,000 volts |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** | can | the electricity |  | you |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to you=Result |
| 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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, R8-pos-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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