Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 23
Fireworks and firecrackers thrown at people or houses can cause burns, fires and great fright, especially to old people and animals.
Who acts: Fireworks · What happens: thrown, cause · To what, where: Fireworks, burns
This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (Fireworks), 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 | Fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 firecrackers | cc |
| 3 | firecrackers | firecracker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fireworks | conj |
| 4 | thrown | thrown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Fireworks | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thrown | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 houses | cc |
| 8 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 people | conj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cause | aux |
| 10 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | burns | burn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cause | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fires | punct |
| 13 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burns | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fright | cc |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fright | amod |
| 16 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burns | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 people | punct |
| 18 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 21 people | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cause | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 animals | cc |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 people | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrown | participle | Fireworks and firecrackers not said here | at people or houses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | can | Fireworks and firecrackers | burns and fires and great fright | to old people and animals | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:23.
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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