--- title: A tram takes electricity from an overhead wire through a pole on its… — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics description: A tram takes electricity from an overhead wire through a pole on its roof and runs on rails in the street, so it is quiet and cannot swerve out of the way. Who acts: tram, electricity. 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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 (tram, electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:9 # text = A tram takes electricity from an overhead wire through a pole on its roof and runs on rails in the street, so it is quiet and cannot swerve out of the way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tram tram NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 overhead overhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 swerve swerve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present | a tram | electricity | | a overhead wire | | through a pole; on pole's roof | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme on roof=Destination | | 2 | **run** | present | a tram *not said here* | | | rails | | in the street | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rail=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | present | electricity | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **swerve** | can | electricity *not said here* | | | the way | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out way=Location | 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:technology:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:9`. **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): no change. **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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