Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 14
When you flush, a valve opens and water from the cistern rushes into the bowl; a float rises as the cistern refills and shuts off the water when it is full; most flushes use several litres.
Who acts: you, valve, water, float, cistern, most flushes · What happens: flush, open, rush, rise, refill, shut off · To what, where: bowl, water, several litres
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 (you, valve, water, float), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 flush | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 flush | nsubj |
| 3 | flush | flush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opens | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flush | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 valve | det |
| 6 | valve | valve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opens | nsubj |
| 7 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rushes | cc |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushes | nsubj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 cistern | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cistern | det |
| 12 | cistern | cistern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | nmod |
| 13 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opens | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 bowl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bowl | det |
| 16 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushes | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 float | det |
| 19 | float | float | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rises | nsubj |
| 20 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opens | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 refills | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cistern | det |
| 23 | cistern | cistern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 refills | nsubj |
| 24 | refills | refill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rises | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shuts | cc |
| 26 | shuts | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 refills | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 shuts | compound:prt |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shuts | obj |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 full | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 full | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 full | cop |
| 33 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shuts | advcl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 use | punct |
| 35 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 flushes | amod |
| 36 | flushes | flush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 use | nsubj |
| 37 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opens | parataxis |
| 38 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 litres | amod |
| 39 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 use | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | 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 | flush | present | you | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | present | a valve | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rush | present | water from the cistern | the bowl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bowl=Destination | ||||
| 4 | rise | present | a float | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | refill | present | the cistern | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | shut off | present | the cistern not said here | the water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | present | water | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | use | present | most flushes | several litres | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient |
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:14.
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, R8-pos-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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