Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 6

A lid on a burning pan cuts off the oxygen; water must never be thrown on burning oil, because it turns to steam and throws the oil out in a fireball.

Who acts: lid, water · What happens: cut off, not throw, burn, turn, throw out · To what, where: oxygen, water, burning oil, steam, oil, fireball

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 (lid, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cuts	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 cuts	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pan	det
5	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cuts	compound
6	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lid	nmod
7	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 cuts	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oxygen	det
10	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cuts	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 cuts	punct
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thrown	nsubj:pass
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thrown	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 thrown	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 thrown	aux:pass
16	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cuts	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 oil	case
18	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 oil	amod
19	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thrown	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turns	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 turns	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turns	nsubj
23	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thrown	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 steam	case
25	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turns	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 throws	cc
27	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 turns	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 oil	det
29	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 throws	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	27 throws	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 fireball	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 fireball	det
33	fireball	fireball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 throws	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cuts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cut off	present	a lid a pan	the oxygen		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector oxygen=Eventuality
2	not throw	must · passive		water	burning oil	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on oil=Destination
3	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	present	water		steam	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory
5	throw out	present	water not said here	the oil	a fireball	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent oil=Theme in fireball=Destination

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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