Air and why we need it, sentence 3

Fire needs oxygen too: a flame goes out when its air is cut off, which is how a fire blanket smothers a fire.

Who acts: Fire, flame, fire blanket · What happens: need, go out, cut off, be, smother · To what, where: oxygen, air, fire

This is a sentence of the lesson «Air and why we need it» of the world 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 (Fire, flame, fire blanket), 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	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 needs	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flame	det
7	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 needs	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 goes	compound:prt
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 cut	mark
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 air	nmod:poss
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux:pass
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 goes	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 how	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 how	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 how	cop
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 goes	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blanket	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blanket	compound
22	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 smothers	nsubj
23	smothers	smother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 how	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 smothers	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Fire	oxygen		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme
2	go out	present	a flame			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cut off	present · passive		oxygen's air		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	is	present			how property	tree rules
5	smother	present	a fire blanket	a fire		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=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:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:3.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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