Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 11
In the classic three-nails test, the water is boiled to drive out air and oil is poured on top to stop air getting back in; only the nail in ordinary water with air rusts well.
Who acts: nail · What happens: boil, drive out, pour, stop, get back, rust · To what, where: water, air, oil, top
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 (nail), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 test | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 test | det |
| 3 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 test | amod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nails | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 6 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 test | compound |
| 7 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boiled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 test | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 boiled | aux:pass |
| 12 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drive | mark |
| 14 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 boiled | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 drive | compound:prt |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drive | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 poured | cc |
| 18 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 poured | aux:pass |
| 20 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boiled | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poured | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stop | mark |
| 24 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 poured | advcl |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stop | obj |
| 26 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 stop | xcomp |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 getting | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 getting | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 nail | punct |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 nail | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 nail | det |
| 32 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rusts | nsubj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 34 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 water | amod |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nail | nmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 air | case |
| 37 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rusts | obl |
| 38 | rusts | rust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 boiled | conj |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 rusts | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 boiled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present · passive | the water | in the classic nails test | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in test=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | drive out | to-infinitive | air | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pour | present · passive | oil | top | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | air | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get back | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | rust | present | the nail in ordinary water | with air; well property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «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:chemistry:013-rust-irons-slow-fire.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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