Electricity and safety, sentence 2

A bird can sit happily on a power line because it touches only one wire and nothing else, so the electricity has no reason to go through it; a person on a ladder touching a wire and the ground at once gives it a path straight through the body.

Who acts: bird, electricity, person · What happens: sit, touch, have, go, give · To what, where: power line, one wire, reason, Electricity, wire, 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 (bird, electricity, person), 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 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 line	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 line	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 line	compound
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 touches	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 touches	nsubj
12	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	advcl
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 wire	nummod
15	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touches	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nothing	cc
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 wire	conj
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 nothing	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 has	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 electricity	det
22	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 reason	det
25	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 reason	acl
28	through	through	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 person	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 person	det
32	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 ladder	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 ladder	det
35	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 person	nmod
36	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 person	acl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 wire	det
38	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 touching	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ground	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ground	det
41	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wire	conj
42	at	at	SCONJ	_	44 gives	mark
43	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	44 gives	advmod
44	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 gives	iobj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 path	det
47	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gives	obj
48	straight	straight	ADV	_	51 body	advmod
49	through	through	ADP	_	51 body	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 body	det
51	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 path	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	can	a bird			a power line	happily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location
2	touch	present	bird	one wire				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme
3	have	present	the electricity	no reason				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
4	go	to-infinitive	the electricity not said here	no reason not said here		Electricity		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location
5	touch	gerund	a person on a ladder not said here	a wire and the ground				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme
6	give	present	a bird not said here	a path	Electricity	the body	once property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient path=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:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:2.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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