Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 13
A car with a metal roof protects you from lightning because the metal body carries the current around you.
Who acts: car, metal body · What happens: protect, carry · To what, where: you, current
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (car, metal body), 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 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protects | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 roof | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roof | compound |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 car | nmod |
| 7 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 protects | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 lightning | case |
| 10 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protects | obl |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 carries | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 13 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 body | compound |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carries | nsubj |
| 15 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 protects | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 current | det |
| 17 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carries | obj |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 carries | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 protects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | a car with a metal roof | you | from lightning | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from lightning=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | present | the metal body | the current | around you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:13.
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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