Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 6
Glass can focus sunlight into a spot hot enough to start a fire.
Who acts: Glass · What happens: focus, start · To what, where: sunlight, spot, 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 (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 | Glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 focus | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 focus | aux |
| 3 | focus | focus | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 focus | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 focus | obl |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spot | amod |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 start | mark |
| 11 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hot | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 start | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 focus | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | focus | can | Glass | sunlight | a spot | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | Glass not said here | a 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:6.
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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