Wasting food and water, sentence 7
Dad heard it and explained that a running tap can pour away several litres a minute — a bucket's worth in a couple of brushings.
Who acts: Dad, running tap · What happens: hear, explain, pour away · To what, where: tap, several litres · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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 (Dad, running tap), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 explained | cc |
| 5 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 pour | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tap | det |
| 8 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tap | compound |
| 9 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pour | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pour | aux |
| 11 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 explained | ccomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 pour | advmod |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 litres | amod |
| 14 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pour | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 minute | det |
| 16 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 litres | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 worth | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bucket | det |
| 19 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 bucket | case |
| 21 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heard | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 couple | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 couple | det |
| 24 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worth | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 brushings | case |
| 26 | brushings | brushing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 couple | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Dad | tap | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Dad not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pour away | can | a running tap | several litres a minute | away property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient |
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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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