--- title: That is why one locomotive, the engine that pulls the train, can pul… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics description: That is why one locomotive, the engine that pulls the train, can pull a whole line of heavy wagons, and also why a fast train needs a very long way to stop. Who acts: That, engine, one locomotive, fast train. A sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology course of Mova's pr --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Trains and the Underground, sentence 3 That is why one locomotive, the engine that pulls the train, can pull a whole line of heavy wagons, and also why a fast train needs a very long way to stop. **Who acts:** That, engine, one locomotive, fast train · **What happens:** be, pull, need, stop · **To what, where:** train, whole line, long way 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 (That, engine, one locomotive, fast 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:3 # text = That is why one locomotive, the engine that pulls the train, can pull a whole line of heavy wagons, and also why a fast train needs a very long way to stop. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 locomotive locomotive NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 wagons wagon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | present | the engine | the train | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | | 3 | **pull** | can | one locomotive | a whole line of heavy wagons | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | a fast train | a long way | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a fast train *not said here* | a long way *not said here* | | | | | 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:3`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Trains and the Underground, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/2/) - next →: [Trains and the Underground, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/)