Computers and screens, sentence 14
Chips get hot, so a fan blows air over metal fins to carry the heat away; never block the vents, and a laptop on a bed can overheat.
Who acts: Chips, fan, laptop · What happens: get, blow, carry away, not block, overheat · To what, where: air, metal fins, heat, vents
This is a sentence of the lesson «Computers and screens» 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 (Chips, fan, laptop), 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 | Chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blows | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 blows | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fan | det |
| 7 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blows | nsubj |
| 8 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hot | conj |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blows | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 fins | case |
| 11 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fins | compound |
| 12 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blows | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 blows | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heat | det |
| 16 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 carry | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 block | punct |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 block | advmod |
| 20 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 carry | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vents | det |
| 22 | vents | vent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 block | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 overheat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 overheat | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 laptop | det |
| 26 | laptop | laptop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 overheat | nsubj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 bed | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bed | det |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laptop | nmod |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 overheat | aux |
| 31 | overheat | overheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hot | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Chips | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | blow | present | a fan | air | metal fins | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||
| 3 | carry away | to-infinitive | a fan not said here | the heat | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | |||
| 4 | not block | infinitive | a fan not said here | the vents | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer vent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | overheat | can | a laptop on a bed | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:036-computers-and-screens.lesson:14.
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 ×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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