--- title: In the cab the driver controls the speed with a lever and watches th… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics description: In the cab the driver controls the speed with a lever and watches the signals; a safety pedal or button must be pressed regularly, or the train stops by itself. Who acts: driver, train. A sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Trains and the Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/) / 17 # Trains and the Underground, sentence 17 In the cab the driver controls the speed with a lever and watches the signals; a safety pedal or button must be pressed regularly, or the train stops by itself. **Who acts:** driver, train · **What happens:** control, watch, press, stop · **To what, where:** speed, cab, signals, safety pedal 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 (driver, train), 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:17 # text = In the cab the driver controls the speed with a lever and watches the signals; a safety pedal or button must be pressed regularly, or the train stops by itself. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cab cab NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 controls control VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lever lever NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 pedal pedal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 25 regularly regularly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **control** | present | the driver | the speed | | the cab | | with a lever | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Theme | | 2 | **watch** | present | the driver *not said here* | the signals | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | | 3 | **press** | must · passive | | a safety pedal or button | | | | regularly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | the train | | | | | by train | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/16/) - next →: [Trains and the Underground, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/)