Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 8

Switching a light on uses only a tiny extra burst of power, far less than leaving it on, so turning lights off when you leave a room saves electricity.

Who acts: Switching, you, turning · What happens: switch on, use, leave on, turn off, leave, save · To what, where: light, tiny extra burst, burst, lights, room, electricity

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 (Switching, you, turning), 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	Switching	switch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 uses	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 light	det
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Switching	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	1 Switching	compound:prt
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 burst	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 burst	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burst	amod
9	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burst	amod
10	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 power	case
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burst	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 less	punct
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 less	advmod
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 burst	amod
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 leaving	mark
17	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 less	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 leaving	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	17 leaving	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saves	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	30 saves	advmod
22	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 saves	csubj
23	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 turning	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 turning	compound:prt
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 leave	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 leave	nsubj
27	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 turning	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 room	det
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leave	obj
30	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 uses	conj
31	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saves	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	switch on	gerund		a light	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	use	present	Switching	a tiny extra burst of power	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burst=Patient
3	leave on	gerund	Switching not said here	burst	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	turn off	gerund		lights	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient
5	leave	present	you	a room	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
6	save	present	turning	electricity	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
7	burst			power	nom burst «act transitive»: of=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:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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