Saving water and energy at home, sentence 11
A dripping tap can waste thousands of litres of water in a year.
Who acts: dripping tap · What happens: drip, waste · To what, where: thousands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving water and energy at home» 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 (dripping tap), 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 | 3 tap | det |
| 2 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tap | amod |
| 3 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waste | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 waste | aux |
| 5 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waste | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 litres | case |
| 8 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thousands | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 litres | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waste | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drip | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 2 | waste | can | a dripping tap | thousands of litres of water | year | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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:089-saving-water-and-energy.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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