Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 12
Dust sticks to a TV screen because the screen can carry a little charge, and a damp cloth removes both the charge and the dust.
Who acts: Dust, screen, damp cloth · What happens: stick, carry, remove · To what, where: little charge, charge
This is a sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics 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 (Dust, screen, damp cloth), 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 | Dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sticks | nsubj |
| 2 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 screen | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 screen | det |
| 5 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 screen | compound |
| 6 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sticks | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 screen | det |
| 9 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sticks | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 charge | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 charge | amod |
| 14 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 removes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 removes | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 18 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cloth | amod |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 removes | nsubj |
| 20 | removes | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sticks | conj |
| 21 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 23 charge | cc:preconj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 charge | det |
| 23 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 removes | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dust | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dust | det |
| 26 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 charge | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sticks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | present | Dust | to a TV screen | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to screen=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | can | the screen | a little charge | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remove | present | a damp cloth | the charge and the dust | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=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:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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