Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 10
A smoke alarm senses tiny smoke particles; test it by pressing its button, never with a flame.
Who acts: smoke alarm · What happens: sense, test, press · To what, where: tiny smoke particles, oxygen, button
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry 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 (smoke alarm), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 alarm | det |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alarm | compound |
| 3 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 senses | nsubj |
| 4 | senses | sense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 particles | amod |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 particles | compound |
| 7 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 senses | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 test | punct |
| 9 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 senses | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 test | obj |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 pressing | mark |
| 12 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 test | advcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 button | nmod:poss |
| 14 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pressing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flame | punct |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 flame | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 flame | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 flame | det |
| 19 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pressing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 senses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sense | present | a smoke alarm | tiny smoke particles | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer particle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | test | infinitive | oxygen | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | press | gerund | oxygen's button | with a flame | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=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:chemistry:012-fire-what-it-needs.lesson:10.
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.
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