--- title: A live third rail or an overhead wire can kill without any train in… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics description: A live third rail or an overhead wire can kill without any train in sight; overhead wires in Britain carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity can jump to someone who only comes close. Who acts: live third rail, overhead wires, 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 (live third rail, overhead wires, electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson:11 # text = A live third rail or an overhead wire can kill without any train in sight; overhead wires in Britain carry about 25,000 volts, and the electricity can jump to someone who only comes close. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 021-trains-and-the-underground.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 overhead overhead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 overhead overhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 25,000 25000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 volts volt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 obl _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | can | a live third rail or a overhead wire | | | | | without any train in sight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **carry** | present | overhead wires in Britain | 25,000 volts | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volt=Theme | | 3 | **jump** | can | the electricity | | | | | to someone *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to someone=Result | | 4 | **come** | present | | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, 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: [Trains and the Underground, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/10/) - next →: [Trains and the Underground, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/)