Electricity and safety, sentence 15
Nerves carry messages as tiny electric pulses, and doctors measure the heart's signals with stickers on the chest.
Who acts: Nerves, doctors, heart · What happens: carry, measure, signal · To what, where: messages, signals
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 (Nerves, doctors, heart), 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 | Nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 pulses | case |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pulses | amod |
| 6 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pulses | amod |
| 7 | pulses | pulse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 measure | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 measure | cc |
| 10 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 measure | nsubj |
| 11 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 signals | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 15 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 measure | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stickers | case |
| 17 | stickers | sticker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 measure | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 chest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chest | det |
| 20 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stickers | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Nerves | messages | as tiny electric pulses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | |||
| 2 | measure | present | doctors | the heart's signals | with stickers on the chest | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme signal=Value | |||
| 3 | signal | the heart | nom signal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:15.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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