Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 3

Embers can stay hot under the ash for many hours, so a fire is drowned with water, stirred and drowned again until it is cold to the touch.

Who acts: Embers, fire · What happens: stay, drown, stir, be · To what, where: 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 (Embers, fire), 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	Embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 ash	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ash	det
7	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hours	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hours	amod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drowned	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 drowned	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drowned	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 drowned	aux:pass
16	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stay	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 water	case
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drowned	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stirred	punct
20	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 drowned	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drowned	cc
22	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stirred	conj
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 drowned	advmod
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 cold	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cold	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cold	cop
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stirred	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 touch	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 touch	det
30	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cold	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	can	Embers		hour	hot property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drown	present · passive		a fire		with water	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument
3	stir	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	drown	participle			again		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	fire			to the touch; cold property	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:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:3.

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 ×1, 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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