Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 12
Salt from sea spray or from gritted winter roads makes iron rust faster, so cars and railings by the sea rust quickly.
Who acts: Salt, cars · What happens: grit, make, rust · To what, where: iron rust
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 (Salt, cars), 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 | Salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 spray | case |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spray | compound |
| 4 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Salt | nmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 roads | cc |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 roads | case |
| 7 | gritted | grit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 roads | amod |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roads | compound |
| 9 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Salt | conj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rust | compound |
| 12 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obj |
| 13 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 rust | advmod |
| 16 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rust | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 railings | cc |
| 18 | railings | railing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cars | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cars | nmod |
| 22 | rust | rust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 makes | parataxis |
| 23 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 22 rust | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | Salt from sea spray or gritted winter roads | iron rust | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rust=Product | ||||
| 3 | rust | present | cars by the sea and railings | quickly 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:12.
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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