Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 12
Under a sink, a U-bend holds a little water that blocks smells from the drain coming back up.
Who acts: U bend, little water, drain · What happens: hold, block, come back · To what, where: little water, sink, smells, drain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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 (U bend, little water, drain), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 sink | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sink | det |
| 3 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holds | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sink | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bend | det |
| 6 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bend | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 U | punct |
| 8 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holds | nsubj |
| 9 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holds | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 blocks | nsubj |
| 14 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 water | acl:relcl |
| 15 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blocks | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 drain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 drain | det |
| 18 | drain | drain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blocks | obl |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 drain | acl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 up | advmod |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 coming | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | a U bend | a little water | a sink | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme under sink=Location | |||
| 2 | block | present | a little water | smells | the drain | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer smell=Beneficiary from drain=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | come back | gerund | the drain not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:12.
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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