Power stations and the grid, sentence 16

In a power cut, use a torch, not a candle, keep the fridge closed, and never touch a fallen line; hospitals have generators that start automatically.

Who acts: you, hospitals, generators · What happens: use, keep, not touch, fall, have, start · To what, where: torch, power cut, fridge, fallen line, generators

This is a sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» 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 (you, hospitals, generators), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 cut	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cut	det
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	compound
4	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 torch	det
8	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 candle	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 candle	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 candle	det
12	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 torch	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fridge	det
16	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	closed	closed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 keep	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 touch	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 touch	cc
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 touch	advmod
21	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 line	det
23	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 line	amod
24	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 touch	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	parataxis
28	generators	generator	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 start	nsubj
30	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 generators	acl:relcl
31	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	30 start	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a torch and a candle	a power cut		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	the fridge		closed property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fridge=Theme
3	not touch	infinitive	you not said here	a fallen line			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Co-Theme
4	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	hospitals	generators			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generator=Patient
6	start	present	generators			automatically property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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