Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 12
Humphry Davy made a safety lamp for coal miners in 1815: a metal mesh around the flame stops it lighting explosive gas in the mine, and it saved many lives.
Who acts: Humphry Davy, metal mesh, mesh, gas · What happens: make, stop, light, save · To what, where: safety lamp, 1815, explosive gas, mine, many lives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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 (Humphry Davy, metal mesh, mesh, gas), 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 | Humphry | Humphry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Davy | compound |
| 2 | Davy | davy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lamp | det |
| 5 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lamp | compound |
| 6 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 miners | case |
| 8 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 miners | compound |
| 9 | miners | miner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lamp | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1815 | case |
| 11 | 1815 | 1815 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 made | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 stops | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mesh | det |
| 14 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mesh | compound |
| 15 | mesh | mesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stops | nsubj |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 flame | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flame | det |
| 18 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mesh | nmod |
| 19 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lighting | nsubj |
| 21 | lighting | light | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stops | xcomp |
| 22 | explosive | explosive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gas | amod |
| 23 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lighting | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mine | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mine | det |
| 26 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lighting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saved | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saved | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saved | nsubj |
| 30 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 lives | amod |
| 32 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 saved | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Humphry Davy | a safety lamp | 1815 | for coal miners | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent lamp=Product for miner=Asset | ||
| 2 | stop | present | a metal mesh around the flame | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | light | gerund | mesh | explosive gas | the mine | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Product | |||
| 4 | save | past | gas | many lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:12.
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 ×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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