Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 3

When you pull the plug in the bath, the water gurgles away down the drain, under the street, all the way to a sewage works where bacteria help clean it.

Who acts: you, water, bacteria · What happens: pull, gurgle away, help, clean · To what, where: plug, bath, way, street, water

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, water, bacteria), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 pull	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pull	nsubj
3	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gurgles	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plug	det
5	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bath	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bath	det
8	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bath	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gurgles	nsubj
12	gurgles	gurgle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 gurgles	advmod
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 drain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 drain	det
16	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gurgles	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pull	punct
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 street	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 street	det
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gurgles	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 street	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 way	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gurgles	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 works	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 works	det
27	sewage	sewage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 works	compound
28	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 way	nmod
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 help	advmod
30	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 help	nsubj
31	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 works	acl:relcl
32	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 help	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 clean	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gurgles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	present	you	the plug	the bath		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme
2	gurgle away	present	the water	all way to a sewage works	the street	down the drain; away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under street=Location
3	help	present	bacteria				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	clean	infinitive	bacteria not said here	water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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:3.

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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