Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows, sentence 12

A fuse has a thin wire that melts if too much electricity flows, breaking the circuit before the wires in the walls overheat; plugging too many things into one socket can make too much flow and overheat it.

Who acts: fuse, thin wire, much electricity, wires, plugging · What happens: have, melt, flow, break, overheat, plug · To what, where: thin wire, circuit, many things, one socket, much flow, wire

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 (fuse, thin wire, much electricity, 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	2 fuse	det
2	fuse	fuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wire	det
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wire	amod
6	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 melts	nsubj
8	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wire	acl:relcl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 flows	mark
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 electricity	amod
12	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flows	nsubj
13	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 melts	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 breaking	punct
15	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 melts	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 circuit	det
17	circuit	circuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 breaking	obj
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 overheat	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wires	det
20	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 overheat	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 walls	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 walls	det
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wires	nmod
24	overheat	overheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 breaking	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 plugging	punct
26	plugging	plug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 make	csubj
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 many	advmod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 plugging	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 socket	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 socket	nummod
32	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plugging	obl
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 make	aux
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	parataxis
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flow	amod
37	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 overheat	cc
39	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 make	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 overheat	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a fuse	a thin wire		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient
2	melt	present	a thin wire			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	flow a condition, not said to happen	present	much electricity			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	break	gerund	a thin wire not said here	the circuit		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer circuit=Patient
5	overheat	present	the wires in the walls			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	plug	gerund		many things	one socket	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination
7	make	can	plugging	much flow		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product
8	overheat	infinitive	plugging not said here	wire		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:12.

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): R8-pos-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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