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title: Under big cities, electric trains run in tunnels called the Undergro… — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics
description: Under big cities, electric trains run in tunnels called the Underground, the Tube, the metro or the subway. Who acts: electric 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 7

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Under big cities, electric trains run in tunnels called the Underground, the Tube, the metro or the subway.

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**Who acts:** electric trains · **What happens:** run, call · **To what, where:** big cities, tunnels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (electric 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:7
# text = Under big cities, electric trains run in tunnels called the Underground, the Tube, the metro or the subway.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Underground	Underground	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Tube	tube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	metro	metro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	subway	subway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **run** | present | electric trains |  |  | big cities |  | in tunnels | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under city=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | tunnels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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): 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/).

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