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title: A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, o… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics
description: A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end. Who acts: usual passenger carriage. 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 22

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A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end.

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**Who acts:** usual passenger carriage · **What happens:** run · **To what, where:** 8 wheels

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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 (usual passenger carriage), 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:22
# text = A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | a usual passenger carriage |  |  | 8 wheels |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wheel=Trajectory |

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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:22`.

**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): R6-punct-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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