How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 8
An emergency stop button cuts the power at once and stays pressed in until someone has checked the problem and twisted it out; it is usually red on a yellow background.
Who acts: stop button, someone, problem · What happens: cut, stay, press in, check, twist out, be · To what, where: power, problem, yellow background
This is a sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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 (stop button, someone, problem), 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 | 4 button | det |
| 2 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | compound |
| 3 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 button | compound |
| 4 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cuts | nsubj |
| 5 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 power | det |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cuts | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | _ | 5 cuts | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stays | cc |
| 11 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cuts | conj |
| 12 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stays | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 pressed | advmod |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 checked | mark |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 checked | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 checked | aux |
| 17 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 pressed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 problem | det |
| 19 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 checked | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 twisted | cc |
| 21 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 checked | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 twisted | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 twisted | compound:prt |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 red | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 red | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 red | cop |
| 27 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 28 red | advmod |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cuts | parataxis |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 background | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 background | det |
| 31 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 background | amod |
| 32 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 red | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | a stop button | the power | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material power=Product | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | a stop button not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | press in | participle | a stop button not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | check | present · perfect | someone | the problem | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | ||||
| 5 | twist out | past | someone not said here | problem | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | problem | a yellow background | red, usually property | tree rules |
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:technology:001-how-a-factory-works.lesson:8.
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 ×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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