Holidays of the region, sentence 8
Fireworks and sparklers can cause bad burns; a sparkler burns much hotter than a candle flame.
Who acts: Fireworks, sparkler · What happens: cause, burn · To what, where: bad burns
This is a sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» 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 (Fireworks, sparkler), 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 | Fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sparklers | cc |
| 3 | sparklers | sparkler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fireworks | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | aux |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 burns | amod |
| 7 | burns | burn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cause | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 burns | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sparkler | det |
| 10 | sparkler | sparkler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burns | nsubj |
| 11 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | parataxis |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 hotter | advmod |
| 13 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 burns | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 flame | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flame | det |
| 16 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flame | compound |
| 17 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hotter | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | can | Fireworks and sparklers | bad burns | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burn | present | a sparkler | hot property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:8.
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 ×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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