Electricity — circuits, switches and safety, sentence 5

When it is on, it closes the gap and the bulb lights; when it is off, it opens a gap and the flow stops.

Who acts: switch, bulb, flow · What happens: be, close, light, open, stop · To what, where: gap

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 (switch, bulb, flow), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 on	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 on	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 on	cop
4	on	on	ADV	_	7 closes	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 on	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 closes	nsubj
7	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gap	det
9	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 closes	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lights	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lights	det
12	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lights	nsubj
13	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 closes	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 closes	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 off	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 off	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 off	cop
18	off	off	ADV	_	7 closes	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 opens	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 opens	nsubj
21	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 closes	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gap	det
23	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opens	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stops	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flow	det
26	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stops	nsubj
27	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 opens	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 closes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	switch		on property	tree rules
2	close	present	switch	the gap		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient
3	light	present	bulb			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	switch		off property	tree rules
5	open	present	switch	a gap		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gap=Theme
6	stop	present	the flow			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:5.

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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