Smells that warn, sentence 20
A gas leak can explode if a flame or spark lights it.
Who acts: gas leak, flame · What happens: explode, light · To what, where: leak
This is a sentence of the lesson «Smells that warn» 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 (gas leak, flame), 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 | 3 leak | det |
| 2 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leak | compound |
| 3 | leak | leak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explode | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 explode | aux |
| 5 | explode | explode | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 lights | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flame | det |
| 8 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lights | nsubj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 spark | cc |
| 10 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flame | conj |
| 11 | lights | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 explode | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lights | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explode | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explode | can | a gas leak | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | light a condition, not said to happen | present | a flame or spark | leak | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:20.
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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