--- title: A freight train is a long line of wagons pulled by a strong locomoti… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics description: A freight train is a long line of wagons pulled by a strong locomotive, carrying coal, containers, cars or stone; one freight train can take dozens of lorries off the road. Who acts: freight train, wagons, one freight train. A sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology cou --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Trains and the Underground, sentence 21 A freight train is a long line of wagons pulled by a strong locomotive, carrying coal, containers, cars or stone; one freight train can take dozens of lorries off the road. **Who acts:** freight train, wagons, one freight train · **What happens:** be, pull, carry, take · **To what, where:** long line, wagons, coal, dozens, road 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 (freight train, wagons, one freight 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:21 # text = A freight train is a long line of wagons pulled by a strong locomotive, carrying coal, containers, cars or stone; one freight train can take dozens of lorries off the road. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 freight freight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 wagons wagon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 locomotive locomotive NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 17 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 containers container NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 freight freight NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 30 dozens dozen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 lorries lorry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 off off ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | a freight train | a long line | | | | of wagons | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | participle | | wagons *not said here* | | | | by a strong locomotive | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | wagons *not said here* | coal and containers and cars or stone | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | | 4 | **take** | can | one freight train | dozens of lorries | | the road | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme off road=Initial\_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:021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson:21`. **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/). - ← previous: [Trains and the Underground, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/20/) - next →: [Trains and the Underground, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/)