Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 10
Iron in dry air, or in water with no air in it, hardly rusts; it needs both oxygen and water.
Who acts: Iron, change · What happens: rust, need · To what, where: oxygen
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rust: iron's slow fire» 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 (Iron, change), 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 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rusts | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 air | case |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Iron | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 water | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 air | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 air | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rusts | punct |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 rusts | advmod |
| 16 | rusts | rust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 needs | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 needs | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 needs | nsubj |
| 19 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 21 oxygen | cc:preconj |
| 21 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 needs | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 water | cc |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 oxygen | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rust | present | Iron in dry air or water with no air in change | hardly property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | present | change | oxygen and water | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=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:chemistry:013-rust-irons-slow-fire.lesson:10.
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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