Saving water and energy at home, sentence 14
Many devices still use electricity on standby when they look switched off.
Who acts: Many devices, devices · What happens: use, look, switch off · To what, where: electricity, standby
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 (Many devices, devices), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 devices | amod |
| 2 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 use | advmod |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 standby | case |
| 7 | standby | standby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 look | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 look | nsubj |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | advcl |
| 11 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 look | xcomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 switched | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Many devices | electricity | standby | still | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient | ||
| 2 | look | present | devices = device | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | switch off | participle | devices = device not said here | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:14.
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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