Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 6
A barbecue stays hot for hours, and fuel must never be squirted onto it because it flares up.
Who acts: barbecue, fuel · What happens: stay, not squirt, flare up · To what, where: fuel, barbecue
This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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 (barbecue, fuel), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barbecue | det |
| 2 | barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stays | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 hours | case |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hot | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 squirted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 squirted | cc |
| 9 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squirted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 squirted | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 squirted | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 squirted | aux:pass |
| 13 | squirted | squirt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stays | conj |
| 14 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 squirted | obl |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 flares | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flares | nsubj |
| 18 | flares | flare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 squirted | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 flares | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a barbecue | hot property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not squirt | must · passive | fuel | barbecue | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme onto it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | flare up | present | fuel | vn light_emission-43.1 «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:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play.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): 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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