Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 14

Heat, fuel and oxygen are called the fire triangle; a fire blanket, a thick sheet put over a small fire, works like a lid and takes away the oxygen.

Who acts: thick sheet, fire blanket · What happens: call, put over, work, take away · To what, where: Heat, small fire, oxygen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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 (thick sheet, fire blanket), 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	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fuel	punct
3	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heat	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 oxygen	cc
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heat	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 triangle	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 triangle	compound
10	triangle	triangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 blanket	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 blanket	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blanket	compound
14	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 works	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sheet	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sheet	det
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sheet	amod
18	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blanket	appos
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sheet	acl
20	over	over	ADP	_	19 put	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fire	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fire	amod
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 works	punct
25	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 called	parataxis
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 lid	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lid	det
28	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 works	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 takes	cc
30	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 works	conj
31	away	away	ADP	_	30 takes	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 oxygen	det
33	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 takes	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · passive		Heat and fuel and oxygen		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	put over	participle	a thick sheet not said here	a small fire		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	work	present	a fire blanket		like a lid	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take away	present	a fire blanket not said here	the oxygen		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme

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:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:14.

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 ×2. 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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