Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows, sentence 10

A thin wire resists the flow and gets hot: an old bulb's wire glows white hot, and a toaster's special wires glow orange on purpose.

Who acts: thin wire, wire, special wires · What happens: resist, get, glow · To what, where: flow, purpose

This is a sentence of the lesson «Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows» 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 (thin wire, wire, special wires), 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 wire	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wire	amod
3	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resists	nsubj
4	resists	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flow	det
6	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resists	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gets	cc
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 resists	conj
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 glows	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bulb	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bulb	amod
13	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wire	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 bulb	case
15	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glows	nsubj
16	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 resists	parataxis
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hot	amod
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 glows	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glow	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 glow	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 toaster	det
22	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wires	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 toaster	case
24	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wires	amod
25	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 glow	nsubj
26	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 resists	conj
27	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 glow	xcomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 purpose	case
29	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glow	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resists	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resist	present	a thin wire	the flow			tree rules
2	get	present	a thin wire not said here			hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	glow	present	a old bulb's wire			hot property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	glow	present	a toaster's special wires		purpose	orange property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location

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:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.lesson:10.

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 ×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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