Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 14
A magnifying glass in sunshine focuses heat that burns insects, so it is never used on living things.
Who acts: magnifying glass, heat · What happens: magnify, focus, burn, not use · To what, where: heat, insects, glass, living things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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 (magnifying glass, heat), 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 glass | det |
| 2 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 glass | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 focuses | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sunshine | case |
| 5 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glass | nmod |
| 6 | focuses | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 focuses | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 burns | nsubj |
| 9 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heat | acl:relcl |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 burns | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 burns | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 used | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 used | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | aux:pass |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 used | advmod |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 focuses | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 18 | living | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 focuses | 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 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | focus | present | a magnifying glass in sunshine | heat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | present | heat | insects | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not use | present · passive | glass | living things | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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): 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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