Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 22

Pick up glass bottles from dry grass, because a bottle can focus sunlight and start a grass fire.

Who acts: you, bottle · What happens: pick up, focus, start · To what, where: glass bottles, dry grass, sunlight, grass fire

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 (you, bottle), 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	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bottles	compound
4	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pick	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 grass	case
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grass	amod
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 focus	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 focus	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bottle	det
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 focus	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 focus	aux
13	focus	focus	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	advcl
14	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 focus	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 start	cc
16	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 focus	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fire	det
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fire	compound
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 start	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pick	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	glass bottles	dry grass	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Topic
2	focus	can	a bottle	sunlight		tree rules
3	start	infinitive	a bottle not said here	a grass fire		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

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:22.

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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