Batteries, sentence 7
Alessandro Volta made the first battery in 1800 from a pile of metal discs and cloth soaked in salty water.
Who acts: Alessandro · What happens: make, soak · To what, where: first battery, 1800, cloth
This is a sentence of the lesson «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 (Alessandro), 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 | Alessandro | Alessandro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Volta | Volta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alessandro | flat |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battery | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 battery | amod |
| 6 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1800 | case |
| 8 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 pile | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pile | det |
| 11 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 discs | case |
| 13 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discs | compound |
| 14 | discs | disc | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pile | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cloth | cc |
| 16 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discs | conj |
| 17 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 cloth | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soaked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | 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 | make | past | Alessandro | the first battery | 1800 | from a pile of metal discs and cloth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent battery=Product from pile=Material | ||
| 2 | soak | participle | cloth not said here | in salty water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=Theme |
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:034-batteries.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): 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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