Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows, sentence 9
The plastic coat on a wire stops the electricity escaping into whatever the wire touches.
Who acts: plastic coat, electricity, wire · What happens: stop, escape, touch · To what, where: electricity, whatever
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 (plastic coat, electricity, wire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coat | det |
| 2 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coat | amod |
| 3 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 wire | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wire | det |
| 6 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coat | nmod |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 electricity | det |
| 9 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | obj |
| 10 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 electricity | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 whatever | case |
| 12 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 escaping | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wire | det |
| 14 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touches | nsubj |
| 15 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the plastic coat on a wire | the electricity | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality electricity=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | escape | gerund | the electricity not said here | whatever | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into whatever=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | touch | present | the wire | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.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): 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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