Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 21
A magnifying glass focuses sunlight into a spot hot enough to start a fire, so never point it at anything, at people or at animals.
Who acts: magnifying glass · What happens: magnify, focus, start, not point · To what, where: sunlight, spot, fire, anything
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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 (magnifying glass), 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 glass | det |
| 2 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 glass | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 focuses | nsubj |
| 4 | focuses | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 focuses | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 focuses | obl |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 hot | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 start | mark |
| 12 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hot | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 start | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 point | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 point | advmod |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 point | advmod |
| 18 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 focuses | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 point | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 anything | case |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 point | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 people | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 anything | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 animals | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 animals | case |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 people | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 focuses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | focus | present | a magnifying glass | sunlight | a spot | tree rules | |||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | a magnifying glass not said here | a fire | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not point | infinitive | fire | anything | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:21.
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 ×2. 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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