Electricity — circuits, switches and safety, sentence 18
Adding more batteries in a row makes a bulb glow brighter.
Who acts: Adding, bulb · What happens: add, make, glow · To what, where: more batteries, row, bulb
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 (Adding, bulb), 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 | Adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 makes | csubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 batteries | amod |
| 3 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Adding | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 row | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 row | det |
| 6 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Adding | obl |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 glow | det |
| 9 | bulb | bulb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | glow | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 glow | amod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | gerund | more batteries | a row | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Adding | bulb | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | glow | infinitive | bulb not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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:18.
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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