Electricity at home, sentence 4

Water from a tap or a bath is not pure: it has dissolved salts in it, and these let electricity flow through it.

Who acts: Water, these, electricity · What happens: not be, dissolve, let, flow · To what, where: salts, body, electricity

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 (Water, these, 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	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pure	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 tap	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tap	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 bath	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bath	det
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tap	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pure	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 pure	advmod
10	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 dissolved	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dissolved	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dissolved	aux
14	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 pure	parataxis
15	salts	salt	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dissolved	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dissolved	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
20	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 let	nsubj
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dissolved	conj
22	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	obj
23	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flow	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pure	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Water from a tap or a bath			pure property	tree rules
2	dissolve	present · perfect	Water	salts	body		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient
3	let	present	these	electricity			tree rules
4	flow	infinitive	electricity not said here		body		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location

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:4.

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): no change. 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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