Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 11
You never play with a fire hydrant, because it is for firefighters; opening one for fun wastes water and can leave firefighters without enough water pressure to fight a fire.
Who acts: You, child, opening · What happens: not play, be, open, waste, leave, fight · To what, where: one, water, firefighters, fire
This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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, child, opening), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 play | advmod |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hydrant | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hydrant | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hydrant | compound |
| 7 | hydrant | hydrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 firefighters | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 firefighters | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 firefighters | cop |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 firefighters | case |
| 13 | firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
| 15 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 wastes | csubj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 opening | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 fun | case |
| 18 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opening | obl |
| 19 | wastes | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | parataxis |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wastes | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leave | cc |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 leave | aux |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wastes | conj |
| 24 | firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leave | obj |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 pressure | case |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pressure | amod |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pressure | compound |
| 28 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leave | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 fight | mark |
| 30 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pressure | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fire | det |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fight | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play | present | You | with a fire hydrant | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hydrant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | child | for firefighters | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | one | for fun | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | waste | present | opening | water | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | can | opening not said here | firefighters | without enough water pressure | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firefighter=Theme | |||
| 6 | fight | to-infinitive | opening not said here | a fire | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Co-Agent |
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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:11.
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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