Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 2
Mains electricity is strong enough to kill, so homes are full of guards: shutters inside sockets, fuses that melt, and switches in the fuse box that cut the power in a blink.
Who acts: Mains electricity, homes, fuses, fuse box · What happens: be, kill, melt, cut · To what, where: power, blink
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 (Mains electricity, homes, fuses, fuse box), 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 | Mains | mains | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 electricity | compound |
| 2 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 strong | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strong | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 full | advmod |
| 10 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 full | cop |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strong | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 guards | case |
| 14 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 fuses | punct |
| 16 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 guards | appos |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 18 sockets | case |
| 18 | sockets | socket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shutters | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fuses | punct |
| 20 | fuses | fuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 guards | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 melt | nsubj |
| 22 | melt | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fuses | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 switches | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 switches | cc |
| 25 | switches | switch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 guards | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 box | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 box | det |
| 28 | fuse | fuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 box | compound |
| 29 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 switches | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 cut | nsubj |
| 31 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 box | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 power | det |
| 33 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cut | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 blink | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 blink | det |
| 36 | blink | blink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cut | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | 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 | is | present | Mains electricity | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | Mains electricity not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | homes | of guards and fuses and switches in the fuse box; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | melt | present | fuses | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | cut | past | the fuse box | the power | a blink | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Product |
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:2.
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.
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