Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 5
Rubbing a balloon on your hair moves electrons onto the balloon, so the balloon and your hair carry opposite charges and pull on each other.
Who acts: Rubbing, balloon · What happens: rub, move, carry, pull · To what, where: balloon, hair, electrons, opposite charges
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 (Rubbing, balloon), 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 | Rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 moves | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 balloon | det |
| 3 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rubbing | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hair | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rubbing | obl |
| 7 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | electrons | electron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moves | obj |
| 9 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 11 balloon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 balloon | det |
| 11 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carry | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 carry | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 balloon | det |
| 15 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hair | cc |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 balloon | conj |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 moves | conj |
| 20 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 charges | amod |
| 21 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carry | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pull | cc |
| 23 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 carry | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 pull | nmod |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 each | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | a balloon | your hair | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme on hair=Destination | ||||
| 2 | move | present | Rubbing | electrons | the balloon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent electron=Theme onto balloon=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | the balloon and your hair | opposite charges | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull | infinitive | the balloon and your hair not said here | on each | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on each=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:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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