Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 9

A fuse is a thin wire that melts if too much current (flow of electricity) flows, breaking the circuit (the loop of wire the electricity runs round) before the wires overheat; the number on it tells how many amps it allows.

Who acts: fuse, thin wire, much current, electricity, wires, number · What happens: be, melt, flow, break, run, overheat · To what, where: thin wire, circuit, loop, many amps · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fuse, thin wire, much current, 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 fuse	det
2	fuse	fuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wire	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wire	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wire	det
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wire	amod
6	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 melts	nsubj
8	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wire	acl:relcl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 flows	mark
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 current	amod
12	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flows	nsubj
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 flow	punct
14	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 current	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 electricity	case
16	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flow	nmod
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 flow	punct
18	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 melts	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 breaking	punct
20	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 melts	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 circuit	det
22	circuit	circuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breaking	obj
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 loop	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 loop	det
25	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 circuit	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 wire	case
27	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 loop	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 electricity	det
29	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 runs	nsubj
30	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 loop	acl:relcl
31	round	round	ADV	_	30 runs	advmod
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 round	punct
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 overheat	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wires	det
35	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 overheat	nsubj
36	overheat	overheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 runs	advcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 number	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 number	det
39	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tells	nsubj
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 number	nmod
42	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wire	parataxis
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 many	advmod
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 amps	amod
45	amps	amp	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 allows	obj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 allows	nsubj
47	allows	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 tells	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wire	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fuse	a thin wire		tree rules
2	melt	present	a thin wire			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	flow a condition, not said to happen	present	much current			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	break	gerund	a thin wire not said here	the circuit		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer circuit=Patient
5	run	present	the electricity	the loop of wire not said here	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme loop=Trajectory
6	overheat	present	the wires			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	present	the number on Electricity			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	allow	present	number	many amps		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amp=Beneficiary
9	flow		electricity			nom flow «event intransitive»: of=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:014-electricity-at-home.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 ×4. 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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