Saving water and energy at home, sentence 4

Example: a tap that drips once a second wastes thousands of litres a year — enough to fill dozens of baths — just because a small washer needs changing.

Who acts: tap, small washer · What happens: drip, waste, fill, need, change · To what, where: thousands, dozens

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 (tap, small washer), 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	Example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 tap	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tap	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Example	appos
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 drips	nsubj
6	drips	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tap	acl:relcl
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 drips	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 second	det
9	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drips	obl:unmarked
10	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drips	conj
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wastes	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 litres	case
13	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	nmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wastes	obl:unmarked
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 enough	punct
17	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drips	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fill	mark
19	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 enough	advcl
20	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fill	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 baths	case
22	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dozens	nmod
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 needs	punct
24	just	just	ADV	_	29 needs	advmod
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 needs	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 washer	det
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 washer	amod
28	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 needs	nsubj
29	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drips	conj
30	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 needs	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Example	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drip	present	a tap		second	once property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	waste	present	a tap not said here	thousands of litres	year		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
3	fill	to-infinitive	a tap not said here	dozens of baths			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dozen=Patient
4	need	present	a small washer				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	change not said to happen	gerund	a small washer not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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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