Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 8
Fire extinguishers use water, foam, powder or carbon dioxide; the coloured band shows which fires each one is for.
Who acts: Fire extinguishers, coloured band · What happens: use, show · To what, where: water, fires
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 (Fire extinguishers, coloured band), 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 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 extinguishers | compound |
| 2 | extinguishers | extinguisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 foam | punct |
| 6 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 powder | punct |
| 8 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 dioxide | cc |
| 10 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dioxide | compound |
| 11 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 shows | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 band | det |
| 14 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 band | amod |
| 15 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shows | nsubj |
| 16 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 17 | which | which | DET | PronType=Rel | 18 fires | det |
| 18 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shows | obj |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 for | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 for | cop |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 fires | case |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | 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 | use | present | Fire extinguishers | water and foam and powder or carbon dioxide | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show | present | the coloured band | which fires | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient |
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: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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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