Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 2

The right method matters: water on a burning chip pan turns to steam in an instant and throws burning oil everywhere, so a lid is used instead.

Who acts: right method, water · What happens: matter, turn, throw, burn, use · To what, where: instant, burning oil, lid

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 (right method, water), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 method	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 method	amod
3	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matters	nsubj
4	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 pan	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pan	det
9	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chip	compound
10	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pan	compound
11	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	nmod
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matters	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 steam	case
14	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 instant	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 instant	det
17	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 throws	cc
19	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 turns	conj
20	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 oil	amod
21	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 throws	obj
22	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 throws	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 used	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 used	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lid	det
26	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 used	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 used	aux:pass
28	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 turns	conj
29	instead	instead	ADV	_	28 used	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 matters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	matter	present	the right method				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	turn	present	water on a chip pan		a instant	to steam	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to steam=Source in instant=Trajectory
3	throw	present	water on a chip pan not said here	burning oil		everywhere property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
4	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	use	present · passive		a lid		instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:2.

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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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