Electricity and safety, sentence 13
An electric eel has special cells that work like hundreds of tiny batteries in a row, and a large eel can knock a person over.
Who acts: electric eel, special cells, large eel · What happens: have, work, knock over · To what, where: special cells, person
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 (electric eel, special cells, large eel), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eel | det |
| 2 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eel | amod |
| 3 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cells | amod |
| 6 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 work | nsubj |
| 8 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cells | acl:relcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 hundreds | case |
| 10 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 work | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 batteries | case |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 batteries | amod |
| 13 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hundreds | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 row | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 row | det |
| 16 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 batteries | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knock | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 eel | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eel | amod |
| 21 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knock | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 knock | aux |
| 23 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 has | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knock | obj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 knock | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a electric eel | special cells | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | ||||
| 2 | work | present | special cells | like hundreds of tiny batteries in a row | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | knock over | can | a large eel | a person | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=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:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:13.
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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