Electricity and safety, sentence 0
Electricity flows wherever it finds a path to somewhere with a different push, such as the ground, and a human body can be that path.
Who acts: Electricity, human body · What happens: flow, find, be · To what, where: path
This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» 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 (Electricity, human body), 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 | Electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flows | nsubj |
| 2 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finds | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finds | nsubj |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flows | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 somewhere | case |
| 9 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 path | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 push | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 push | det |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 push | amod |
| 13 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 path | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ground | punct |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 ground | case |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 such | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 path | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 flows | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 path | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 body | amod |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 path | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 path | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 path | cop |
| 26 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 27 path | det |
| 27 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flows | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | Electricity | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | present | Electricity | a path and the ground | with a different push; wherever property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | can | a human body | that path | 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:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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