Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★, sentence 12

Birds can sit on a power line because they touch only one wire and not the ground; a kite string touching a line can let electricity pass through a person to the ground.

Who acts: Birds, kite string, electricity · What happens: sit, touch, let, pass · To what, where: power line, one wire, line, electricity, ground

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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 (Birds, kite string, 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 line	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 line	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 line	compound
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 touch	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 touch	nsubj
10	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	advcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 wire	nummod
13	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touch	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ground	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 ground	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wire	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 string	det
20	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 string	compound
21	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	nsubj
22	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 string	acl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 line	det
24	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touching	obj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	parataxis
27	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obj
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 person	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 person	det
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pass	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pass	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	can	Birds		a power line		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location
2	touch	present	Birds = bird	one wire and the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme
3	touch	gerund	a kite string not said here	a line			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Co-Theme
4	let	can	a kite string	electricity			tree rules
5	pass	infinitive	electricity not said here		the ground	through a person	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through person=Initial_Location to ground=Destination

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:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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