Electricity at home, sentence 10

A boy in England flew his kite near overhead power lines; the kite string touched the wires and the electricity went down the string, and he was badly burnt.

Who acts: boy, kite string, electricity · What happens: fly, touch, go down, burn, kite · To what, where: kite, overhead power lines, wires, string, wire

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home» 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 (boy, kite string, electricity), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kite	nmod:poss
7	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obj
8	near	near	ADP	_	11 lines	case
9	overhead	overhead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lines	amod
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lines	compound
11	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flew	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 touched	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 string	det
14	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 string	compound
15	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touched	nsubj
16	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wires	det
18	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 touched	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 electricity	det
21	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 touched	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 string	det
25	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 burnt	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 burnt	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 burnt	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 burnt	aux:pass
30	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 burnt	advmod
31	burnt	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flew	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a boy in England	boy's kite	overhead power lines		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme near line=Location
2	touch	past	the kite string	the wires			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme
3	go down	past	the electricity	the string		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	burn	past · passive		wire		badly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	kite		boy				nom kite «possession transitive»: poss=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:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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