Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 0

Scientists explain surprising things by using a few simple rules carefully, one step after another.

Who acts: Scientists · What happens: explain, use · To what, where: surprising things, few simple rules

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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 (Scientists), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 explain	nsubj
2	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 explain	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 using	mark
6	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 explain	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rules	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rules	amod
9	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rules	amod
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 using	obj
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	6 using	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 step	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 step	nummod
14	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 using	obl
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 another	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 step	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 explain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	Scientists	surprising things					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	use	gerund	Scientists not said here	a few simple rules				one step after another obl; carefully property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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:world:060-reasoning-energy-technology.lesson:0.

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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