Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 23
Candles left burning near curtains or while people sleep are a common cause of house fires.
Who acts: Candles, people · What happens: leave, burn, sleep, be · To what, where: Candles, curtains, common cause
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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 (Candles, people), 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 | Candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Candles | acl |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 left | xcomp |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 curtains | case |
| 5 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burning | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleep | cc |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sleep | nsubj |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 curtains | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cause | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cause | det |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cause | amod |
| 13 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fires | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fires | compound |
| 16 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cause | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | Candles not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | Candles not said here | curtains | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near curtain=Location | ||||
| 3 | sleep | present | people | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Candles | a common cause | of house fires | 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:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:23.
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): no change. 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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