Phones and computer chips, sentence 11
Touch screens do not work with most gloves because they need the electricity of your skin; a cracked screen can cut fingers, so cover it until it is fixed.
Who acts: Touch screens, screens, cracked screen · What happens: not work, need, crack, cut, cover, fix · To what, where: electricity, fingers, finger, skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» 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 (Touch screens, screens, cracked screen), 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 | Touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 screens | compound |
| 2 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 work | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 work | advmod |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gloves | case |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 gloves | amod |
| 8 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 work | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 need | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 need | nsubj |
| 11 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 electricity | det |
| 13 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 skin | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 electricity | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 cut | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 screen | det |
| 19 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 screen | amod |
| 20 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cut | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 cut | aux |
| 22 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 work | parataxis |
| 23 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cut | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cover | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 cover | advmod |
| 26 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cut | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cover | obj |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 fixed | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fixed | aux:pass |
| 31 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 cover | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | present · do-support | Touch screens | with most gloves | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with glove=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | need | present | screens = screen | the electricity of your skin | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot electricity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | cut | can | a cracked screen | fingers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product | ||||
| 5 | cover | infinitive | a cracked screen not said here | finger | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 6 | fix | present · passive | finger | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | electrify | your skin | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:11.
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): 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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