Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 16

The UK and Ireland use three square pins, the USA and Canada two flat pins, and Australia and New Zealand slanted pins, so travellers need a proper adaptor.

Who acts: UK, travellers · What happens: use, need · To what, where: three square pins, proper adaptor

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 (UK, travellers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 UK	det
2	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 use	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Ireland	cc
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 UK	conj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pins	nummod
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pins	compound
8	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 USA	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 USA	det
11	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pins	list
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Canada	cc
13	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 USA	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pins	nummod
15	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pins	amod
16	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 USA	nmod:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Australia	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Australia	cc
19	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 USA	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Zealand	cc
21	New	New	PROPN	_	22 Zealand	compound
22	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Australia	conj
23	slanted	slanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pins	amod
24	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pins	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 need	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 need	advmod
27	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 need	nsubj
28	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 adaptor	det
30	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 adaptor	amod
31	adaptor	adaptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 need	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 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	present	the UK and Ireland	three square pins and slanted pins					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient
2	need	present	travellers	a proper adaptor					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adaptor=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:16.

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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