Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 6
Tap water is cleaned before it reaches you: it is left to settle, filtered, and treated with a little chlorine to kill germs; many places in the world still lack clean water.
Who acts: Water, many places · What happens: clean, reach, leave, settle, filter, treat · To what, where: Tap water, you, Water, germs, clean water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» 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, many places), 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 | Tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | compound |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleaned | aux:pass |
| 4 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 reaches | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reaches | nsubj |
| 7 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleaned | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 reaches | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux:pass |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reaches | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 settle | mark |
| 14 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 filtered | punct |
| 16 | filtered | filter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 left | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 treated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 treated | cc |
| 19 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cleaned | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 chlorine | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chlorine | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chlorine | amod |
| 23 | chlorine | chlorine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 treated | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 kill | mark |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 treated | advcl |
| 26 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kill | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 lack | punct |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 places | amod |
| 29 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lack | nsubj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 places | nmod |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 34 lack | advmod |
| 34 | lack | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleaned | conj |
| 35 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 water | amod |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lack | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleaned | 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 | clean | present · passive | Tap water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | reach | present | Water | you | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | Water | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | settle | to-infinitive | Water not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | filter | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | treat | participle | with a little chlorine | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with chlorine=Theme | |||||
| 7 | kill | to-infinitive | germs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | |||||
| 8 | lack | present | many places in the world | clean water | still | tree rules |
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:034-water-amazing-liquid.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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