Safe in the kitchen, sentence 17
Cold slows the growth of bacteria but does not kill them.
Who acts: Cold, bacteria · What happens: slow, not kill, grow · To what, where: growth, bacteria
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» 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 (Cold, bacteria), 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 | Cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slows | nsubj |
| 2 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 growth | det |
| 4 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slows | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bacteria | case |
| 6 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 growth | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 kill | cc |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 kill | advmod |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 slows | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | present | Cold | the growth of bacteria | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent growth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not kill | present · do-support | Cold not said here | bacteria = bacterium | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | bacteria | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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:031-kitchen-safety.lesson:17.
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): R8-pos-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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