Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 15
In a power cut, use a torch (flashlight) rather than candles, and keep the fridge closed so the food stays cold for hours.
Who acts: you, fridge, food · What happens: use, keep, close, stay · To what, where: torch, power cut, fridge
This is a sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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 (you, fridge, food), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cut | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cut | det |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | compound |
| 4 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 torch | det |
| 8 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 flashlight | punct |
| 10 | flashlight | flashlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 torch | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 flashlight | punct |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 14 candles | cc |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 rather | fixed |
| 14 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torch | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fridge | det |
| 19 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 stays | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 food | det |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stays | nsubj |
| 24 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | advcl |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stays | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 hours | case |
| 27 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stays | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | a torch rather candles | a power cut | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | the fridge | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | the fridge not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | stay | present | the food | hour | cold property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:15.
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): R5-strong ×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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