Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 5
Picture a power cut: candles, a cold fridge, no TV.
Who acts: you · What happens: picture · To what, where: power cut
This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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 (you), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cut | det |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | compound |
| 4 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 candles | punct |
| 6 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fridge | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fridge | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fridge | amod |
| 10 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 candles | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 TV | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 TV | det |
| 13 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 candles | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a power cut | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cut=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:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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