Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 1

A switch is just a gate in a wire: flick it one way and the path is joined so electricity flows; flick it back and the path is broken.

Who acts: switch, electricity · What happens: be, flick, join, flow, flick back, break · To what, where: gate, wire, path, Electricity

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» 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 (switch, electricity), 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 switch	det
2	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gate	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gate	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 gate	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wire	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wire	det
9	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gate	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 flick	punct
11	flick	flick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 gate	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flick	obj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 way	nummod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flick	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 joined	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 path	det
17	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 joined	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 joined	aux:pass
19	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 flick	conj
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	22 flows	mark
21	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flows	nsubj
22	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 joined	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 flick	punct
24	flick	flick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 flick	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 flick	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	24 flick	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 broken	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 path	det
29	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 broken	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 broken	aux:pass
31	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 flick	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gate	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a switch	a gate	a wire		tree rules
2	flick	infinitive		gate		one way obl:unmarked	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	join	present · passive		the path			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	flow	present	electricity				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flick back	infinitive		Electricity			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	break	present · passive		the path			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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