Electricity at home and staying safe, sentence 3
A meter counts how much electrical energy the home uses, and the family pays for it.
Who acts: meter, home, family · What happens: count, use, pay · To what, where: much electrical energy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home and staying safe» 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 (meter, home, family), 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 meter | det |
| 2 | meter | meter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counts | nsubj |
| 3 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 energy | amod |
| 6 | electrical | electrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 energy | amod |
| 7 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uses | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uses | nsubj |
| 10 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 counts | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pays | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pays | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 family | det |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pays | nsubj |
| 15 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 counts | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pays | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | a meter | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | use | present | the home | much electrical energy | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pay | present | the family | for meter | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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:087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.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): no change. 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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