Electricity and safety, sentence 3
In a thunderstorm a car is a safe place: lightning runs over the outside of the metal body and into the ground, and it is the metal shell, not the rubber tyres, that protects you.
Who acts: car, lightning, metal shell · What happens: be, run, protect · To what, where: safe place, thunderstorm, outside, metal shell, you
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 (car, lightning, metal shell), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 thunderstorm | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thunderstorm | det |
| 3 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 lightning | punct |
| 11 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 runs | nsubj |
| 12 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | parataxis |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 outside | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 outside | det |
| 15 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 runs | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 18 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 body | compound |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 outside | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ground | cc |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 outside | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shell | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shell | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 shell | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 shell | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shell | det |
| 29 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shell | compound |
| 30 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tyres | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 tyres | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tyres | det |
| 34 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tyres | compound |
| 35 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 shell | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 protects | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 protects | nsubj |
| 38 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 shell | acl:relcl |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 protects | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | 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 | is a | present | a car | a safe place | a thunderstorm | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | present | lightning | the outside of the metal body and the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over outside=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | lightning | the metal shell and the rubber tyres | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | protect | present | the metal shell and the rubber tyres | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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:3.
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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