Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 10

Toast marshmallows on a long stick at the side of the flames, and blow one out if it catches fire, because burning sugar sticks to skin.

Who acts: you, side, burning sugar · What happens: toast, blow out, catch, burn, stick · To what, where: marshmallows, one, fire

This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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 (you, side, burning sugar), 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	Toast	toast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	marshmallows	marshmallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Toast	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stick	amod
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Toast	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Toast	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flames	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flames	det
12	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 side	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blow	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blow	cc
15	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Toast	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 blow	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 blow	compound:prt
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 catches	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 catches	nsubj
20	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 blow	advcl
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 catches	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blow	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 sticks	mark
24	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sugar	amod
25	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sticks	nsubj
26	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 blow	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 skin	case
28	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sticks	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Toast	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	toast	imperative	you not said here	marshmallows	at the side of the flames; on a long stick	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent marshmallow=Patient on stick=Instrument
2	blow out	infinitive	you not said here	one		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	present	side	fire		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
4	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stick	present	burning sugar		to skin	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to skin=Co-Patient

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:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-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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