Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 19
Tetanus is caused by a germ in soil and dirt, not by rust; a deep cut from any dirty object can let it in, and vaccination protects you.
Who acts: germ, deep cut, vaccination · What happens: cause, let in, protect · To what, where: Tetanus, you
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 (germ, deep cut, vaccination), 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 | Tetanus | tetanus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | aux:pass |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 germ | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 germ | det |
| 6 | germ | germ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl:agent |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 soil | case |
| 8 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 germ | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dirt | cc |
| 10 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soil | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rust | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 rust | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 rust | case |
| 14 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 germ | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 deep | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cut | det |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cut | amod |
| 18 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 let | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 object | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 object | det |
| 21 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 object | amod |
| 22 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 let | aux |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caused | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 let | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 let | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 protects | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 protects | cc |
| 29 | vaccination | vaccination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 protects | nsubj |
| 30 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 let | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 protects | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · passive | a germ in soil and dirt and rust | Tetanus | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let in | can | a deep cut from any dirty object | Tetanus | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | protect | present | vaccination | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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:19.
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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