Fire at home, sentence 12
A mum in Leeds threw water on a pan of burning oil; the water turned to steam and blew flaming oil across the kitchen, and she was burnt on the arms.
Who acts: mum, water · What happens: throw, burn, turn, blow · To what, where: water, pan, steam, flaming oil, kitchen, arms
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire 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 (mum, water), 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 mum | det |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mum | nmod |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 pan | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pan | det |
| 9 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 burning | mark |
| 11 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 oil | amod |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pan | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 threw | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 steam | case |
| 18 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blew | cc |
| 20 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | conj |
| 21 | flaming | flame | ADJ | _ | 22 oil | amod |
| 22 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blew | obj |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 kitchen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kitchen | det |
| 25 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blew | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 burnt | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 burnt | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 burnt | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 burnt | aux:pass |
| 30 | burnt | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 turned | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 arms | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 arms | det |
| 33 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 burnt | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | a mum in Leeds | water | a pan burning oil | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme on pan=Destination | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | turn | past | the water | steam | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | blow | past | the water not said here | flaming oil | the kitchen | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | |||
| 5 | burn | past · passive | water | the arms | tree rules |
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:034-fire-at-home.lesson:12.
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, 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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