Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, sentence 6

A fire needs fuel, oxygen and heat; take one away and it goes out, and a fire blanket works by keeping the oxygen out.

Who acts: fire, fuel, fire blanket · What happens: need, take away, go out, work, keep out · To what, where: fuel, one, oxygen

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» 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 (fire, fuel, fire blanket), 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 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 oxygen	punct
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fuel	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heat	cc
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oxygen	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needs	parataxis
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 take	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 goes	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 goes	nsubj
15	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 goes	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 works	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 works	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blanket	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blanket	compound
21	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 works	nsubj
22	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	conj
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 keeping	mark
24	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 works	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 oxygen	det
26	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keeping	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	24 keeping	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	a fire	fuel and oxygen and heat		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme
2	take away	infinitive		one	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	go out	present	fuel			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	present	a fire blanket			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep out	gerund	a fire blanket not said here	the oxygen		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:6.

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): 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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