What is everything made of?, sentence 11
A salt grain is a tiny cube because salt's particles stack in a cube pattern; a sugar grain has flat faces too, but a different shape.
Who acts: salt grain, particles, sugar grain · What happens: be, stack, have · To what, where: tiny cube, cube pattern, flat faces
This is a sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry 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 (salt grain, particles, sugar grain), 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 grain | det |
| 2 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grain | compound |
| 3 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cube | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cube | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cube | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cube | amod |
| 7 | cube | cube | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 stack | mark |
| 9 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 particles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 salt | case |
| 11 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stack | nsubj |
| 12 | stack | stack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cube | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pattern | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pattern | det |
| 15 | cube | cube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pattern | compound |
| 16 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stack | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 grain | det |
| 19 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grain | compound |
| 20 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cube | parataxis |
| 22 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 faces | amod |
| 23 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 has | obj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 has | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shape | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 shape | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 shape | det |
| 28 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shape | amod |
| 29 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cube | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cube | 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 | is a | present | a salt grain | a tiny cube but a different shape | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stack | present | salt's particles | a cube pattern | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pattern=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a sugar grain | flat faces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:11.
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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