Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime, sentence 7

Clay pieces join best when both surfaces are scratched, a little runny clay called slip is added, and they are pressed and smoothed together.

Who acts: Clay pieces, little runny clay · What happens: join, scratch, call, add, press, smooth · To what, where: surfaces, slip, little runny clay, clay · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» of the arts 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 (Clay pieces, little runny clay), 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	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	compound
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 join	nsubj
3	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 join	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 scratched	advmod
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 surfaces	det
7	surfaces	surface	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scratched	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 scratched	aux:pass
9	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 join	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 added	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 clay	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clay	amod
13	runny	runny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clay	amod
14	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 added	nsubj:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 clay	acl
16	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 added	aux:pass
18	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 scratched	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pressed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pressed	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pressed	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 pressed	aux:pass
23	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 added	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 smoothed	cc
25	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 pressed	conj
26	together	together	ADV	_	23 pressed	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 join	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	present	Clay pieces		well property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	scratch	present · passive		both surfaces		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	call	participle	a little runny clay not said here	slip		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	add speech: assert	present · passive		a little runny clay		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	press	present · passive		clay	together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	smooth	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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:arts:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.lesson:7.

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, 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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