Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries, sentence 7
Mains electricity in UK and European homes is around 230 volts (volts measure how hard electricity pushes), enough to stop a heart, while a torch battery is only one and a half volts.
Who acts: Mains electricity, volts, electricity, torch battery · What happens: be, measure, push, stop · To what, where: 230 volts, heart, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» 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, volts, electricity, torch battery), 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 | main | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 electricity | compound |
| 2 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 volts | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 UK | case |
| 4 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 homes | compound |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 homes | cc |
| 6 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 UK | conj |
| 7 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 electricity | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 volts | cop |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 230 | advmod |
| 10 | 230 | 230 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 volts | nummod |
| 11 | volts | volt | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 measure | punct |
| 13 | volts | volt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 measure | nsubj |
| 14 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 volts | parataxis |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 hard | advmod |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 18 pushes | advmod |
| 17 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pushes | nsubj |
| 18 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 measure | ccomp |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 measure | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 enough | punct |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 volts | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stop | mark |
| 23 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 enough | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 heart | det |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stop | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 one | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 one | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 battery | det |
| 29 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 battery | compound |
| 30 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 one | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 one | cop |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 one | advmod |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 volts | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 volts | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 half | det |
| 36 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 37 volts | compound |
| 37 | volts | volt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 volts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mains electricity and UK homes | 230 volts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | measure | present | volts | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | push | present | electricity | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | Mains electricity and UK homes not said here | a heart | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a torch battery | one and half volts | tree rules |
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:016-electricity-dangers.lesson:7.
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. 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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