Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 7

A charged balloon sticks to a wall because it pulls on the charges in the wall; on a damp day the charge leaks away and it falls sooner.

Who acts: charged balloon, balloon, charge · What happens: charge, stick, pull, leak away, fall · To what, where: charges, wall

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 (charged balloon, balloon, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 balloon	det
2	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 balloon	amod
3	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sticks	nsubj
4	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wall	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sticks	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 pulls	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pulls	nsubj
10	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sticks	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 charges	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 charges	det
13	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pulls	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 charges	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 leaks	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 day	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaks	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 charge	det
23	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaks	nsubj
24	leaks	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sticks	parataxis
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 leaks	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 falls	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 falls	nsubj
28	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 leaks	conj
29	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 falls	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sticks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	participle						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stick	present	a charged balloon				to a wall	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	pull	present	balloon	the charges	the wall			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme
4	leak away	present	the charge			day	away property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	fall	present	charge				soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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