Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 16

A lightning rod gives lightning an easy metal path down a thick wire into the earth, and Benjamin Franklin invented it.

Who acts: lightning rod, Benjamin Franklin · What happens: give, invent · To what, where: easy metal path, lightning, earth

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 (lightning rod, Benjamin Franklin), 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 rod	det
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rod	compound
3	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	iobj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 path	det
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 path	amod
8	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 path	compound
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	13 wire	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wire	det
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wire	amod
13	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 path	nmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 invented	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 invented	cc
19	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Franklin	compound
20	Franklin	Franklin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 invented	nsubj
21	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gives	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 invented	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a lightning rod	a easy metal path	lightning	the earth		down a thick wire	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Recipient path=Theme
2	invent	past	Benjamin Franklin	Lightning					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

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:16.

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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