Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 17
A steam engine burns fuel to boil water, and the steam pushes the engine's parts.
Who acts: steam engine, steam · What happens: burn, boil, push · To what, where: fuel, water, parts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» 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 (steam engine, steam), 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 engine | det |
| 2 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engine | compound |
| 3 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burns | nsubj |
| 4 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burns | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 boil | mark |
| 7 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 burns | advcl |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boil | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pushes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pushes | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steam | det |
| 12 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | nsubj |
| 13 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 burns | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 engine | det |
| 15 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 parts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 engine | case |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pushes | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burns | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | a steam engine | fuel | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boil | to-infinitive | a steam engine not said here | water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | push | present | the steam | the engine's parts | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:17.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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