Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime, sentence 8

Very thick lumps of clay can trap water or air that turns to steam in the kiln, a very hot oven, and crack the piece; potters keep walls even and not too thick.

Who acts: thick lumps, water, potters · What happens: trap, turn, crack, keep · To what, where: water, kiln, piece, walls

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 (thick lumps, water, potters), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 thick	advmod
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lumps	amod
3	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trap	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 clay	case
5	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lumps	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 trap	aux
7	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trap	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 air	cc
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 turns	nsubj
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 water	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 steam	case
14	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 kiln	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kiln	det
17	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 oven	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 oven	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 hot	advmod
21	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 oven	amod
22	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kiln	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 crack	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 crack	cc
25	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trap	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crack	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 keep	punct
29	potters	potter	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 keep	nsubj
30	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trap	parataxis
31	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 keep	obj
32	even	even	ADV	_	36 thick	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thick	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 thick	advmod
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 thick	advmod
36	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 keep	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 trap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trap	can	thick lumps of clay	water or air			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	turn	present	water or air		the kiln	to steam	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to steam=Source in kiln=Trajectory
3	crack	infinitive	thick lumps of clay not said here	the piece			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme
4	keep	present	potters	walls		thick property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=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:arts:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.lesson:8.

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): 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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