Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 16
Wildfires spread fast in dry, hot, windy weather: dry plants are fuel, heat dries the next plants, and wind brings fresh oxygen; firefighters cut gaps to remove fuel.
Who acts: Wildfires, dry plants, heat, wind, firefighters · What happens: spread, be, dry, bring, cut, remove · To what, where: dry hot windy weather, fuel, next plants, fresh oxygen, gaps
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 (Wildfires, dry plants, heat, wind), 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 | Wildfires | wildfire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 spread | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 weather | case |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weather | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dry | punct |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weather | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hot | punct |
| 9 | windy | windy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weather | amod |
| 10 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 plants | punct |
| 12 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plants | amod |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fuel | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fuel | cop |
| 15 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dries | punct |
| 17 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dries | nsubj |
| 18 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fuel | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plants | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plants | amod |
| 21 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dries | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brings | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brings | cc |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brings | nsubj |
| 25 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dries | conj |
| 26 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 oxygen | amod |
| 27 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brings | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 cut | punct |
| 29 | firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cut | nsubj |
| 30 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | parataxis |
| 31 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cut | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 remove | mark |
| 33 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 cut | advcl |
| 34 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 remove | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Wildfires | dry hot windy weather | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | dry plants | fuel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dry | present | heat | the next plants | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient plant=Result | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | wind | fresh oxygen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut | present | firefighters | gaps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gap=Product | ||||
| 6 | remove | to-infinitive | firefighters not said here | fuel | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=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:16.
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.
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