Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 9
A wall thermostat measures the room's temperature and tells the boiler to start or stop; turning it right up does not heat the room faster, it only lets it get hotter in the end.
Who acts: wall thermostat, boiler, turning, room · What happens: measure, tell, start, stop, turn up, not heat · To what, where: temperature, boiler, room · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wall thermostat, boiler, turning, room), 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 | 3 thermostat | det |
| 2 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thermostat | compound |
| 3 | thermostat | thermostat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 measures | nsubj |
| 4 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 temperature | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 room | case |
| 8 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 measures | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tells | cc |
| 10 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 measures | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boiler | det |
| 12 | boiler | boiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tells | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 start | mark |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tells | xcomp |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 stop | cc |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 start | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 turning | punct |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 heat | csubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turning | obj |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 up | advmod |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 turning | compound:prt |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 heat | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 heat | advmod |
| 24 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 measures | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heat | obj |
| 27 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 heat | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lets | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 lets | nsubj |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 lets | advmod |
| 31 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 measures | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 lets | obj |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 lets | xcomp |
| 34 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 get | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 end | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 end | det |
| 37 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hotter | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 measures | 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 | measure | present | a wall thermostat | the room's temperature | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | a wall thermostat not said here | the boiler | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boiler=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | start not said to happen | to-infinitive | the boiler not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stop | infinitive | the boiler not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | turn up | gerund | boiler | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not heat | present · do-support | turning | the room | fast property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | |||
| 7 | let | present | boiler | room | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | get | infinitive | room not said here | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:9.
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, R8-pos-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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