Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 17

A boy in Leeds put a towel over a heater to dry it; it started to burn and filled the room with smoke.

Who acts: boy, towel · What happens: put, dry, start, burn, fill · To what, where: towel, heater, room

This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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 (boy, towel), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 towel	det
7	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 heater	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 heater	det
10	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dry	mark
12	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 put	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dry	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 started	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
16	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 burn	mark
18	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 started	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 filled	cc
20	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 started	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 filled	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 smoke	case
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 filled	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	a boy in Leeds	a towel	a heater		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towel=Theme over heater=Destination
2	dry	to-infinitive	a boy in Leeds not said here	towel			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
3	start	past	towel				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	burn	to-infinitive	towel not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fill	past	towel not said here	the room		with smoke	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smoke=Instrument

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:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:17.

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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