Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 8

There is no confirmed case of a mobile phone setting petrol alight at a pump; most fires at pumps start from static electricity (the charge that builds up on you and gives a little spark or zap), for example when someone gets back in the car and then touches the nozzle.

Who acts: confirmed case, mobile phone, most fires, charge, someone · What happens: be, confirm, setting, start, build up, give · To what, where: petrol, pump, static electricity, little spark, car, nozzle

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 (confirmed case, mobile phone, most fires, charge), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 case	det
4	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 case	amod
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 phone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 phone	det
8	mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 phone	amod
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 case	nmod
10	setting	setting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 phone	acl
11	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 setting	obj
12	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 setting	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 pump	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pump	det
15	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 setting	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 start	punct
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 fires	amod
18	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 start	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 pumps	case
20	pumps	pump	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fires	nmod
21	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 electricity	case
23	static	static	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 electricity	amod
24	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 start	obl
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 charge	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 charge	det
27	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 electricity	appos
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 builds	nsubj
29	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 charge	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 builds	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 builds	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gives	cc
34	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 builds	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 spark	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 spark	amod
37	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gives	obj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 zap	cc
39	zap	zap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spark	conj
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 charge	punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 example	punct
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 example	case
43	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 gets	advmod
45	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 gets	nsubj
46	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 example	advcl
47	back	back	ADV	_	46 gets	advmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 car	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 car	det
50	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gets	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 touches	cc
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 touches	advmod
53	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 gets	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 nozzle	det
55	nozzle	nozzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 touches	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no confirmed case of a mobile phone		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	confirm	participle						vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	setting	gerund	a mobile phone not said here	petrol	a pump		alight property	tree rules
4	start	present	most fires at pumps		static electricity			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	build up	present	the charge				on you	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	give	present	the charge not said here	a little spark or zap				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Theme
7	get back	present	someone		the car			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	touch	present	someone not said here	the nozzle		then		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nozzle=Co-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:8.

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): R8-pos-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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