Electricity — circuits, switches and safety, sentence 11
A gap anywhere in a circuit stops the electricity flowing.
Who acts: gap, electricity · What happens: stop, flow · To what, where: electricity
This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity — circuits, switches and safety» 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 (gap, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gap | det |
| 2 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 gap | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 circuit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 circuit | det |
| 6 | circuit | circuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gap | nmod |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 electricity | det |
| 9 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | obj |
| 10 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 electricity | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a gap in a circuit | the electricity | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality electricity=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | the electricity not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:world:055-electricity.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): 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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