Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 19
Fireworks and sparklers cause serious burns every year; fireworks are only for trained adults, and used sparklers go into a bucket of water.
Who acts: Fireworks, used sparklers · What happens: cause, train, be, use, go · To what, where: serious burns, bucket
This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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 (Fireworks, used sparklers), 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 | Fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sparklers | cc |
| 3 | sparklers | sparkler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fireworks | conj |
| 4 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 burns | amod |
| 6 | burns | burn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cause | obj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 adults | punct |
| 10 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 adults | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 adults | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 adults | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 adults | case |
| 14 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 adults | amod |
| 15 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cause | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sparklers | amod |
| 19 | sparklers | sparkler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cause | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 bucket | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bucket | det |
| 23 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bucket | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | Fireworks and sparklers | serious burns | year | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=Patient | |||
| 2 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | fireworks | for trained adults | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | participle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | go | present | used sparklers | a bucket of water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bucket=Initial_Location |
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:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:19.
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): R8-pos-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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