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title: Ticket barriers read paper tickets, cards or phones and then open; t… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics
description: Ticket barriers read paper tickets, cards or phones and then open; the gates close fast, so nobody should squeeze through behind someone else. Who acts: Ticket barriers, gates, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Trains and the Underground, sentence 14

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Ticket barriers read paper tickets, cards or phones and then open; the gates close fast, so nobody should squeeze through behind someone else.

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**Who acts:** Ticket barriers, gates, nobody · **What happens:** read, open, close, squeeze · **To what, where:** paper tickets, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology 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 (Ticket barriers, gates, nobody), 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:14
# text = Ticket barriers read paper tickets, cards or phones and then open; the gates close fast, so nobody should squeeze through behind someone else.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	barriers	barrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tickets	ticket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	through	through	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **read** | present | Ticket barriers | paper tickets and cards or phones |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Topic |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | Ticket barriers *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | present | the gates |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **squeeze** | should | nobody |  |  | someone |  | through *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:technology:021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson:14`.

**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): 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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