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title: Many lines in the south of England have a third rail carrying about… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many lines in the south of England have a third rail carrying about 750 volts, which is always live (full of electricity), train or no train. Who acts: Many lines, third rail. A sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine course of Mova's primar
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# Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 12

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Many lines in the south of England have a third rail carrying about 750 volts, which is always live (full of electricity), train or no train.

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**Who acts:** Many lines, third rail · **What happens:** have, carry, be · **To what, where:** third rail, 750 volts

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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 (Many lines, third rail), 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:12
# text = Many lines in the south of England have a third rail carrying about 750 volts, which is always live (full of electricity), train or no train.
# 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 ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
14	750	750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	volts	volt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **have** | present | Many lines in the south of England | a third rail  train or no train |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | a third rail  train or no train *not said here* | 750 volts |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a third rail  train or no train |  |  |  |  | always, live *property* | tree rules |

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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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2. **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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