Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 17
A phone charger in bed will not electrocute you (give you a deadly electric shock), but a phone or charger under a pillow or duvet can overheat and start a fire, so charge it on a hard surface.
Who acts: phone charger, phone · What happens: not electrocute, give, overheat, start, charge · To what, where: you, deadly electric shock, fire, charger, hard surface
This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (phone charger, phone), 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 charger | det |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charger | compound |
| 3 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 electrocute | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charger | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 electrocute | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 electrocute | advmod |
| 8 | electrocute | electrocute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 electrocute | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 electrocute | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shock | det |
| 14 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shock | amod |
| 15 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shock | amod |
| 16 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 overheat | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 overheat | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 phone | det |
| 21 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 overheat | nsubj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 charger | cc |
| 23 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 phone | conj |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 pillow | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pillow | det |
| 26 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 phone | nmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 duvet | cc |
| 28 | duvet | duvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pillow | conj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 overheat | aux |
| 30 | overheat | overheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 electrocute | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 start | cc |
| 32 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 overheat | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fire | det |
| 34 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 start | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 charge | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 charge | advmod |
| 37 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 electrocute | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 charge | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 surface | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 surface | det |
| 41 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 surface | amod |
| 42 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 charge | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 electrocute | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not electrocute | future | a phone charger in bed | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | a deadly electric shock | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overheat | can | a phone under a pillow or duvet or charger | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | start | infinitive | a phone under a pillow or duvet or charger not said here | a fire | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | charge | infinitive | a phone charger in bed not said here | charger | a hard surface | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:17.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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