Electricity at home, sentence 13
Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are used to cover wires.
Who acts: Plastic · What happens: not let, flow, use, cover · To what, where: Plastic, wires
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 (Plastic), 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 | Plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rubber | cc |
| 3 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plastic | conj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flow | compound |
| 8 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 8 flow | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 used | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | aux:pass |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 let | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 cover | mark |
| 16 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | advcl |
| 17 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cover | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | present · do-support | Plastic and rubber | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flow | infinitive | Plastic and rubber not said here | easily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | Plastic | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cover | to-infinitive | wires | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Destination |
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:13.
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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