Electricity at home, sentence 11

A girl in Florida used a hair dryer next to a full bath; it fell in, and only the safety switch in the house tripping in time stopped her getting a deadly shock.

Who acts: girl, dryer, safety switch · What happens: use, fall in, trip, stop, get · To what, where: hair dryer, girl, deadly shock

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 (girl, dryer, safety switch), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dryer	det
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dryer	compound
8	dryer	dryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obj
9	next	next	ADV	_	5 used	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 bath	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bath	det
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bath	amod
13	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 next	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	parataxis
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stopped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 switch	cc
20	only	only	ADV	_	23 switch	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 switch	det
22	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 switch	compound
23	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stopped	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 switch	nmod
27	tripping	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 switch	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 time	case
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tripping	obl
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stopped	obj
32	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 stopped	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shock	det
34	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shock	amod
35	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 getting	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	a girl in Florida	a hair dryer		next property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dryer=Patient
2	fall in	past	dryer				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trip	gerund	the safety switch in the house not said here		time		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	past	the safety switch in the house	girl			tree rules
5	get	gerund	the safety switch in the house not said here	a deadly shock			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus

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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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