Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 9
Water must never be used on an electrical fire, because water carries electricity; carbon dioxide extinguishers push the oxygen away instead.
Who acts: water, dioxide extinguishers · What happens: not use, carry, push away · To what, where: Water, electrical fire, electricity, oxygen
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 (water, dioxide extinguishers), 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 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 used | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 8 | electrical | electrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fire | amod |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 electricity | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 carries | mark |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 13 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | advcl |
| 14 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 push | punct |
| 16 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dioxide | compound |
| 17 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 extinguishers | compound |
| 18 | extinguishers | extinguisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 push | nsubj |
| 19 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oxygen | det |
| 21 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 push | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 push | advmod |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 19 push | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | 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 | not use | must · passive | Water | a electrical fire | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | water | electricity | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push away | present | dioxide extinguishers | the oxygen | away, instead property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:9.
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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