Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 5
A boiler burns gas, or uses electricity, to heat water, and a pump sends the hot water round pipes to radiators and taps; gas boilers are fitted by registered gas engineers.
Who acts: boiler, pump, registered gas engineers · What happens: burn, use, heat, send, fit, register · To what, where: gas, electricity, water, hot water, gas boilers
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 (boiler, pump, registered gas engineers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boiler | det |
| 2 | boiler | boiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burns | nsubj |
| 3 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burns | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 uses | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 uses | cc |
| 7 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burns | conj |
| 8 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uses | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heat | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 heat | mark |
| 11 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 uses | advcl |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sends | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sends | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pump | det |
| 16 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sends | nsubj |
| 17 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burns | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sends | obj |
| 21 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pipes | amod |
| 22 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sends | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 radiators | case |
| 24 | radiators | radiator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sends | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 taps | cc |
| 26 | taps | tap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 radiators | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 fitted | punct |
| 28 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 boilers | compound |
| 29 | boilers | boiler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fitted | aux:pass |
| 31 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 burns | parataxis |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 engineers | case |
| 33 | registered | register | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 engineers | amod |
| 34 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 engineers | compound |
| 35 | engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fitted | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burns | 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 | burn | present | a boiler | gas | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gas=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present | a boiler not said here | electricity | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient | ||||
| 3 | heat | to-infinitive | a boiler not said here | water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 4 | send | present | a pump | the hot water | to radiators and taps | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent water=Destination pipe=Theme | |||
| 5 | fit | present · passive | registered gas engineers | gas boilers | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | register | participle | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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 ×2. 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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