Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 15

At a sewage works, waste water is screened, settled in tanks and cleaned by helpful bacteria before the clean water goes back to rivers, and the sludge can be turned into gas for energy.

Who acts: clean water · What happens: screen, settle, clean, go back, turn · To what, where: waste water, sewage works, tanks, sludge, gas

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 (clean water), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 works	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 works	det
3	sewage	sewage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	compound
4	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 screened	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 screened	punct
6	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 screened	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 screened	aux:pass
9	screened	screen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 settled	punct
11	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 screened	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 tanks	case
13	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 settled	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cleaned	cc
15	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 screened	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 bacteria	case
17	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bacteria	amod
18	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cleaned	obl:agent
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 goes	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
21	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goes	nsubj
23	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cleaned	advcl
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 goes	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 rivers	case
26	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 goes	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turned	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sludge	det
30	sludge	sludge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turned	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 turned	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 turned	aux:pass
33	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 screened	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 gas	case
35	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turned	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 energy	case
37	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gas	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 screened	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	screen	present · passive		waste water	a sewage works		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient at work=Location
2	settle	participle			tanks		vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location
3	clean	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	go back	present	the clean water			to rivers result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result
5	turn	can · passive		the sludge	gas for energy		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into gas=Trajectory

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:15.

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, 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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