Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 17

A doorbell camera sends video over Wi-Fi to a phone when someone presses the button or moves nearby, but children still let an adult answer the door to strangers.

Who acts: doorbell camera, someone, children · What happens: send, press, move, let, answer · To what, where: video, Wi Fi, button, door

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 (doorbell camera, someone, children), 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 camera	det
2	doorbell	doorbell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 camera	compound
3	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	nsubj
4	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 Fi	case
7	Wi	Wi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fi	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Fi	punct
9	Fi	fi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 phone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 phone	det
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 presses	advmod
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 presses	nsubj
15	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sends	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 button	det
17	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presses	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 moves	cc
19	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 presses	conj
20	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	19 moves	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 let	nsubj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 let	advmod
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sends	conj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 adult	det
27	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 answer	amod
28	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 answer	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 strangers	case
32	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 answer	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	a doorbell camera	video	Wi Fi		to a phone	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent video=Theme to phone=Destination
2	press	present	someone	the button				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme
3	move	present	someone not said here				nearby property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	let	infinitive	children			still		tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	infinitive	children not said here	the door			to strangers	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality

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:17.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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