Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 9

Walking on carpet can build up charge on your body, which jumps to a metal door handle as a tiny spark, more often in winter when the air is dry.

Who acts: Walking, charge, air · What happens: walk, build up, jump, be · To what, where: carpet, charge, body

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 (Walking, charge, air), 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	Walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 build	csubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 carpet	case
3	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 build	aux
5	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 build	compound:prt
7	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 jumps	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 jumps	nsubj
13	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 charge	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 handle	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 handle	det
16	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	compound
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 handle	compound
18	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumps	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 spark	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 spark	det
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spark	amod
22	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumps	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 build	punct
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 often	advmod
25	often	often	ADV	_	5 build	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 winter	case
27	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 often	obl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 dry	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dry	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dry	cop
32	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 build	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 build	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund			carpet		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on carpet=Trajectory
2	build up	can	Walking	charge	your body	often property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer charge=Patient
3	jump	present	charge			to a door handle result; as a tiny spark	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to handle=Result
4	is	present	the air			dry property	tree rules

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:9.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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