Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 8
A rubbed comb can pick up bits of paper and even bend a thin stream of tap water.
Who acts: rubbed comb · What happens: rub, pick up, bend · To what, where: bits, thin stream
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 (rubbed comb), 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 comb | det |
| 2 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 comb | amod |
| 3 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pick | aux |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 pick | compound:prt |
| 7 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pick | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 paper | case |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bits | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bend | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 bend | advmod |
| 12 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pick | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 14 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stream | amod |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bend | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | compound |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stream | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | pick up | can | a rubbed comb | bits of paper | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bend | infinitive | a rubbed comb not said here | a thin stream of tap water | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent stream=Material |
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: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): 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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