Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 15
A closed door limits the fresh air that feeds a fire, so it slows the fire down.
Who acts: closed door, fresh air, fire · What happens: limit, feed, slow down · To what, where: fresh air, fire
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 (closed door, fresh air, fire), 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 | 3 door | det |
| 2 | closed | closed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 door | amod |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 limits | nsubj |
| 4 | limits | limit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 air | amod |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 limits | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 feeds | nsubj |
| 9 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 air | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feeds | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slows | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 slows | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slows | nsubj |
| 15 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 limits | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slows | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 slows | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 limits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | limit | present | a closed door | the fresh air | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer air=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | the fresh air | a fire | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | slow down | present | fire | the fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=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:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:15.
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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