Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 3
A lid on a burning pan works because it cuts off the oxygen.
Who acts: lid · What happens: work, cut off · To what, where: oxygen
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 (lid), 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 lid | det |
| 2 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 works | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pan | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pan | det |
| 5 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pan | compound |
| 6 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lid | nmod |
| 7 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 cuts | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cuts | nsubj |
| 10 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 works | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 cuts | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oxygen | det |
| 13 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cuts | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | a lid on a burning pan | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cut off | present | lid | the oxygen | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector oxygen=Eventuality |
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:3.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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