When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 8
Wiring must be done by a trained electrician, because mistakes with electricity can cause fires and shocks, and there are laws about it.
Who acts: trained electrician, mistakes, laws · What happens: do, train, cause, be · To what, where: Wiring, fires
This is a sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life 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 (trained electrician, mistakes, laws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wiring | wiring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 electrician | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 electrician | det |
| 7 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 electrician | amod |
| 8 | electrician | electrician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cause | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 cause | mark |
| 11 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cause | nsubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 electricity | case |
| 13 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mistakes | nmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cause | aux |
| 15 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | advcl |
| 16 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cause | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shocks | cc |
| 18 | shocks | shock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fires | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 are | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 are | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 are | expl |
| 22 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 23 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 are | nsubj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laws | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
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 | do | must · passive | a trained electrician | Wiring | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cause | can | mistakes with electricity | fires and shocks | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 4 | does | present | laws about Wiring | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:8.
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.
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