--- title: Railways add their own dangers: trains are fast and quiet, a second… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: Railways add their own dangers: trains are fast and quiet, a second one can follow the first, and live rails and wires can kill without any train at all. Who acts: Railways, trains, second one, live rails. A sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/6/) [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/) / [Road and railway safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/) / 6 # Road and railway safety, sentence 6 Railways add their own dangers: trains are fast and quiet, a second one can follow the first, and live rails and wires can kill without any train at all. **Who acts:** Railways, trains, second one, live rails · **What happens:** add, be, follow, kill · **To what, where:** own dangers, first This is a sentence of the lesson «Road and railway safety» 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 (Railways, trains, second one, live rails), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:6 # text = Railways add their own dangers: trains are fast and quiet, a second one can follow the first, and live rails and wires can kill without any train at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 027-road-and-railway-safety.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 Railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 dangers danger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 rails rail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Railways | Railways's own dangers | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | trains | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | trains *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | can | a second one | the first | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=Theme | | 5 | **kill** | can | live rails and wires | | | | | without any train at all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | 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:027-road-and-railway-safety.lesson:6`. **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: [Road and railway safety, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/5/) - next →: [Road and railway safety, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/)