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title: Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains began in 1964 and are famous for ru… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics
description: Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains began in 1964 and are famous for running on time. Who acts: Shinkansen bullet trains. A sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trains and the Underground, sentence 16

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Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains began in 1964 and are famous for running on time.

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**Who acts:** Shinkansen bullet trains · **What happens:** begin, be, run · **To what, where:** 1964

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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 (Shinkansen bullet trains), 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:16
# text = Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains began in 1964 and are famous for running on time.
# 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): no change
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Shinkansen	Shinkansen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1964	1964	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **begin** | past | Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains |  |  | 1964 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains *not said here* |  |  |  |  | famous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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